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From: alan@pdn.UUCP (Alan Lovejoy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Optimized M2
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Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 10:18:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 10:18:53 1987
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There is a company in Britain called Masthaven who are currenlty
marketing an optimizing Modula-2 compiler for UNIX/V.  Their
compiler was originally written by Mark White at Volition Systems,
but was never marketed for reasons I can't go into (I don't want
to hire a lawyer...).  A company in Seattle called ScenicSoft bought
limited rights to this compiler in 1984, and are currently marketing
their version for Stride/Sage machines.  This is probably the most
mature version available, since ScenicSoft has been working on it
longer than Masthaven.  I have the ScenicSoft version, and can report
that it is VERY good.  On a Stride 440 @12MHz with one wait state,
10 iterations of BYTE's Sieve benchmark (flags: ARRAY [0..8191])
executes in 1.14 seconds.  For comparison, hand-coded assembly 
executes in 0.91 seconds.

If you are interested, mail me and I'll mail you addresses and phone
numbers.

--alan@pdn