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From: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: fad computing
Summary: fast compiles depend on the compiler...
Message-ID: <1547@aber-cs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 89 17:47:47 GMT
Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Organization: Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth
	(Disclaimer: my statements are purely personal)
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In article <76700088@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
    
    Why not try prototyping on a Mac in C sometime?  You'd be surprised how
    much time UNIX pisses away with its N-pass memory-thrashing
    compilers and ASCII include files.
    
    I'd like to see ANY 16Mhz 68020 UNIX box compile 45,000 lines per
    minute, then bind & launch 5 seconds later (I'm talking about
    THINK/LightspeedC for the mac).  8-).

Well, there are fast compilers for Unix. It is not a matter of CPU
architecture, or even system architecture, or even OS architecture.  For
example, there is an interesting paper in the November SIGPLAN...  They are
not as fast as Think C, but probably they could become like that.
Unfortunately, many Unix programmers on single user workstations with 10
MIPS CPUs and as many megabytes tend to have a cavalier attitude to resource
consumption, even more about memory then speed.
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