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From: rion@wdl1.UUCP (Rion Cassidy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Modula2 on Encore (questions)
Message-ID: <3740001@wdl1.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 20:06:43 GMT
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Pete Soper writes:

>Runtime performance is about 1/4 as good as that of equivalent C
>programs compiled with Encore C, based on the Hennessey/Nye
>benchmarks.

Is this typical of modula-2?  Is C usually 4 times faster for
equivalent programs?

Rion Cassidy
Ford Aerospace
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