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From: jgk@speech2.cs.cmu.edu (Joe Keane)
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Subject: Re: m88000 benchmarks (and C vs ASM)
Keywords: compilers
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All this tells me is that badly need better compilers.  Sad to say,
most Unix computers are still using some variant of pcc (don't get me
wrong, pcc was a good idea, but that was a long time ago).  I think
gcc is starting to look good; it's nice to recompile a program and get
a 20% across-the-board speedup.  Some of the new architectures out
there are really going to put a strain on the compiler writers, more
power to them.

And no one should be ashamed of hand-coding a hundred lines of
assembly.  There's always that inner loop that really needs to be
fast.

--Joe