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From: kennel@minnie.cognet.ucla.edu (Matthew Kennel)
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Subject: Re: LightspeedC 3.0 Review (long)
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Date: 20 Jul 88 19:22:13 GMT
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In article <76000259@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>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.


Yup, GNU CC is _very_ good!  And it's free!


Is there anybody interested in porting it to the Mac?
I suspect there might be a big problem in object file format, etc.

Matt Kennel
(kennel@cognet.ucla.edu


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