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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Query:Speed of Mod2 vs C
Message-ID: <11753@sun.uucp>
Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 17:55:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 20 17:55:11 1987
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Summary: Yes it is faster

In article <410001@ui3.UUCP>, dickow@ui3.UUCP writes:
>    The question I have, since I am considering buying a Modula2 system
> to program on my Amiga, is... how does Modula2 rate in overall execution
> speed compared to C? The ads for the Amiga Modula2 say nothing about 
> this, and it is important to me on general principles.
> Bob Dickow (...egg-id!ui3!dickow)

Yes, Modula-2 on the Amiga is faster than C. While I cannot attribute
this the language itself, the compiler is a lot nicer. It also has
a linker that actually prunes unused modules from the executable
and thus decreases load time. I have been debating if I should get
the latest upgrade (I always seem to lose these debates :-)) The
only thing that isn't great is the inability to easily use C examples
posted by other sources. Since invariably they use some lazy type
checking to an advantage.

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