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From: phil@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Phil Sohn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Easy to Learn Mac Programming Environment
Summary: The Subject should be: Optimizing Compilers
Message-ID: <2543@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 29 May 88 03:46:11 GMT
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Reply-To: phil@ems.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Phil Sohn)
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In article <2788@calmasd.GE.COM> jnp@calmasd.GE.COM (John Pantone) writes:
>        A number crunching segment of code, by its very nature, is
>well suited for optimizing compilers - and the speed is far and away
>mostly limited by the CPU and/or math processor - not the code.

	A change of CPU or math processor will produce a increase in
speed of maybe 100% if you are lucky, but a really good optimizing
compiler will create a speed increase of 1000%.


		phil@ems.media.mit.edu