Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Common Compilers for benchmarks (was: Re: benchmarking)
Message-ID: <1988Nov27.022818.167@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7352@wright.mips.COM> <26627@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <609@quintus.UUCP> <1791@pembina.UUCP> <1347@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 88 02:28:18 GMT

In article <1347@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> rick@svedberg.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller) writes:
>In article <1791@pembina.UUCP>, steve@obed.uucp (stephen Samuel) writes:
>> ...Most of the people who are interested in the newer machines are either
>> scientific types who tend to avoid COBOL or business people who believe
>> that MIPS is all that it takes to make a good machine (snicker, snicker).
> 
>Your prejudices are showing...

They are indeed.  Note that MIPSco has invested significant effort in making
good COBOL, PL/I, and Ada compilers available on its machines.  (Optimizing
Ada is lots of fun, I'm told.)  Since MIPSco seems to run simulations of
the alternatives before deciding when to have lunch :-), I doubt that
they did this on a whim.
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