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From: chuck@amdahl.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,comp.arch
Subject: Re: 80286 vs. 432
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Date: Thu, 14-May-87 20:03:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 14 20:03:41 1987
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Keywords: object-oriented, capabilities
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In article <2688@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> fritz@polecat.Caltech.EDU (Fritz Nordby) writes:
>It is true that almost every object-oriented system built to date has
>suffered from poor performance; but much of this performance detriment
>is due to the methods of implementation.

It has also been suggested that the 432 performed poorly on many
benchmarks because the software was written in ADA and compiled
with an extremely poor compiler (i.e. no optimizations were performed
on the source code at all...)

-- Chuck