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From: pha@CAEN.ENGIN.UMICH.EDU (Paul H. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  Paranoia test, and some interesting results
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Date: 13 Dec 88 17:23:49 GMT
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Simply because a program runs on one machine doesn't mean it
will run on others.  Perhaps the fact that it crapped out on
2 out of the 3 machines you tried it on should tell you
something.

Also, it is bogus to give compile time results without explaining
which options were used and what the run time results were.  There
are very substantial differences between different levels of
optimisation in terms of expected run time.

I have found the Apollo compilers to be quite good, mostly in
terms of speed of compilation and error messages given.  I don't
usually care about the last 5% of compiled code performance.

Paul Anderson
CAEN