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From: soper@encore.UUCP (Pete Soper)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Modula2 on Encore (questions)
Message-ID: <2720@encore.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 88 22:51:05 GMT
References: <8026@sunybcs.UUCP> <3740001@wdl1.UUCP> <2270@pdn.UUCP>
Reply-To: soper@encore.UUCP (Pete Soper)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA
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In article <2270@pdn.UUCP> alan@pdn.UUCP (0000-Alan Lovejoy) writes:

>The difference between different compilers for the SAME language on the
>SAME machine running the SAME operating system can vary by more than a
>factor of five.  This makes it very difficult to get objective
>measurements of the difference in speed a language makes (assuming 

  Right. I was making a statement about compiler technology and the
actual performance of a few compilers, so people would know what to
expect. Nothing more.
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