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From: johnw@astroatc.UUCP (John F. Wardale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: kit wishlist and software
Message-ID: <862@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 88 23:45:38 GMT
References: <880@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <177@anumb.UUCP> <585@naucse.UUCP> <1006@ur-tut.UUCP> <23506@hi.unm.edu>
Reply-To: johnw@astroatc.UUCP (John F. Wardale)
Organization: Astronautics Technology Cntr, Madison, WI
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Keywords: 32k kit, cheap unix.

In article <23506@hi.unm.edu> cyrus@hi.unm.edu (Tait Cyrus) writes: 
>
>To those of you who have suggested using GENIX, I would say DO NOT
>USE IT.  Namely, the GENIX C compiler, along with GENIX itself,
>uses external procedures (i.e. cxp, rxp, lxp, etc) which is VERY
>VERY VERY VERY............ SLOW.
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Please do *NOT* confuse a SYSTEM with a COMPILER !!!!!!!!

Symetrics has a Genix port with there own complier/linker/etc.
that does *NOT* use cxp-et.al.   I don't have hard timings, but I
have a good feel that the difference is only about 10 or 15%

There *IS* a Green-Hill's compiler for the National, but it's not
cheap.  It's code should be 15-25% faster than the symetics's.

-- 
					John Wardale
... {seismo | harvard | ihnp4} ! {uwvax | cs.wisc.edu} ! astroatc!johnw

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