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Subject: Re: Compiler efficiency
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Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 21:23:06 EST
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In article <3987@watdragon.waterloo.edu> palarson@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Paul Larson) writes:
>I have heard some murmurs (they weren't loud enough to be be termed
>complaints) that some (many?  all?) compilers for the mac produce code
>of questionable efficiency.  I don't know enough assembly to prove or
>disprove this statement.  Is there any merit to these murmurs?

Compared to other machines I've worked on, Macintosh C compilers (I don't
have experience with other languages) are a big disappointment, even the
professional MPW C from Green Hills.  They don't even do simple peephole
optimizations, let alone the global optimization necessary for really
good code generation.

Anyone want to work on porting Gnu C to MPW?

Stew
Stew Rubenstein
Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc.
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