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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LightspeedC 3.0 Review (long)
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Date: 19 Jul 88 15:36:00 GMT
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Recently, Comp.arch listed the results of a Dhrystone test of
different C compilers.  The results included LightspeedC, at 2467
Dhrystones, and also Sun 3/50's, at as much as 4000+ Dhrystones on a
16.67Mhz 68020 (gcc compiler).  So I don't think that LightspeedC is
nearly as fast as possible.  A better compiler for the same CPU (at
1Mhz more clocks) runs almost 8/5 as fast!  Oh well, some day we will
have extremely efficient compilers for the macintosh.... I hope.