Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!wb3ffv.UUCP!uucp From: uucp@wb3ffv.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Warning From uucp Message-ID: <8808242359.AA03761@wb3ffv.UUCP> Date: 26 Aug 88 16:17:53 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Modula2 Distribution List Organization: The Internet Lines: 70 We have been unable to contact machine 'sarin' since you queued your job. sarin!mail eric (Date 08/23) The job will be deleted in several days if the problem is not corrected. If you care to kill the job, execute the following command: uustat -ksarinN0f1a Sincerely, wb3ffv!uucp ############################################# ##### Data File: ############################ >From aplcen!mimsy!rutgers!ucf1vm.bitnet!INFO-M2 Tue Aug 23 05:36:00 1988 remot e from wb3ffv Received: by wb3ffv.UUCP (Smail-2.5) id AA02280; 23 Aug 88 05:36:00 EDT (Tue) Received: by mimsy.UMD.EDU (smail2.5) id AA14331; 23 Aug 88 02:26:03 EDT (Tue) Received: from AJPO.SEI.CMU.EDU by rutgers.edu (5.59/1.15) id AA00559; Tue, 23 Aug 88 01:45:21 EDT Received: from cunyvm.cuny.edu by decwrl.dec.com (5.54.5/4.7.34) id AA15815; Mon, 22 Aug 88 22:24:21 PDT Received: from BITNIC.BITNET by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with BSMTP id 7064; Sun, 21 Aug 88 00:01:09 EDT Received: by BITNIC (Mailer X1.25) id 8432; Sat, 20 Aug 88 23:57:45 EDT Return-Path: Received: from ucbvax.berkeley.edu by jade.berkeley.edu (5.54 (CFC 4.22.3)/1.16.18B) id AA20436; Sat, 20 Aug 88 20:51:53 PDT Received: by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (5.59/1.30) id AA10440; Sat, 20 Aug 88 20:33:07 PDT Received: from USENET by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU with netnews for info-m2@ucf1vm.bitnet (info-modula-2@ucf1vm.bitnet) (contact usenet@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU if you have questions) Organization: SOT Sun Cluster, ETH Zuerich References: <8808151857.AA05996@klaus.olsen.uucp> Message-Id: <473@solaris.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 88 10:01:11 GMT Reply-To: Info-Modula2 Distribution List Sender: Info-Modula2 Distribution List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was editor%ucf1vm.BITNET@JADE.BERKELEY.EDU From: Mitchell Wyle Subject: Re: C v.s. Modula II Comments: To: info-modula-2@ucf1vm To: "(no name)" >because we wrote 500 modules using the two-pass style (anyone written >an automatic converter yet?). Most of the M2 implementations >don't do: automatic inlining (not so hard), register allocation (local >would be fine), any amount of code optimization, and/or code elimination. The Sun M2 compiler version 2.1 uses the Sun global optimizer for peep-hole and shared library optimization. I admit it's only in the code generation, and not earlier, but it's better than nothing. >The problem is that no one takes a half a minute to think what it >would take to make a good M2 compiler. (I'll supply a empirically >proven portable library free of charge.) Forget the past, one Which library are you talking about? >Rob Nagler mcvax!olsen!nagler@uunet.uu.net >Olsen & Associates/Research Institute for Applied Economics/Zuerich -- -Mitchell F. Wyle wyle@ethz.uucp Institut fuer Informatik wyle%ifi.ethz.ch@relay.cs.net ETH Zentrum 8092 Zuerich, Switzerland +41 1 256-5237