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From: klute%trillian.irb@unido.uucp (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Turbo C
Keywords: Turbo C, Laser C, speed
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Date: 7 Jan 89 14:28:03 GMT
References: <834@sdcc15.ucsd.edu> <537@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
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In article <537@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
>Yep, Turbo C really exists. ...
>Apparently
>it's the fastest compiler yet, and produces the fastest code, by a pretty
>good margin, from the numbers I've seen.

I have seen some benchmark numbers in the "ST-Computer" (a
German ST magazin). They compared Laser C and Turbo C and it
turned out that Turbo C generated faster code but Laser C had
better compile times.

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