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From: khb@fatcity.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman Sun Tactical Engineering)
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Subject: Re: 80486 vs. 68040 code size
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Date: 1 May 89 03:29:35 GMT
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In article <7952@killer.Dallas.TX.US> elg@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
>
>A possible flaw: I seem to recall that SunOS's old compilers, at
>least, were based on the PCC. The PCC isn't exactly the world's most
>sophisticated compiler. The code it produces is, to put it charitably,
>merely adequate. On the other hand, I suspect that the Xenix compiler
>has been much tweaked by Microsoft's compiler experts....

Well, Sun's compilers haven't exactly stood still. OS 3.4 is quite
old, and the compilers are nowhere close to our current ones (in
terms of robustness, code quality, etc.)




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