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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Benchmarking C Compilers (was Re: L
Message-ID: <3358@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 22 Jul 88 19:40:28 GMT
References: <3133@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <76000275@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <76000275@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

>I really doubt that Green Hills marketing hype (6900+ Dhrystone for C
>under A/UX).  Perhaps the compiler is tracking down & removing dead
>code!  That isn't fair -- the entire benchmark is supposed to be "live
>code"...

au contraire, my boy, removing dead code is EXACTLY what is wanted from an
optimizing compiler.  Along with loop strength reduction, address merging,
register marking, common subexpression elimination, etc., etc.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)