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From: gcreesor@lotus.waterloo.edu (Glen Reesor)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Looking for GOOD optimizing compilers for MS-DOS
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Date: 20 Feb 90 21:18:05 GMT
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In article <1541@maytag.waterloo.edu>, dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
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> I don't know what the competition is like, but would suggest that you
> can probably do as well as an optimizing compiler by using a profiler
> (TurboPower sells TP specific ones, or you can use a general purpose
> one), and rewriting the critical sections in assembler.  Certainly more
> work, certainly means that you won't be able to easily port your
> program to any other machine, but a much cheaper alternative than someone's
> low-volume compiler.  TP is so dominant in the PC Pascal market that
> it's probably been better debugged than anyone else's compiler, and better
> support from a larger user group is available.

That's quite the blanketing statement about TP being the best Pascal compiler
on the market! :-)   TP may have a fancy user interface (which I like too),
but if you're looking for better code generation I would look at Microsoft
and Watcom compilers (just off the top of my head).  I'm sure you'd agree
that these are respectable companies and far from "low-volume". :-)
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Glen Reesor                                   gcreesor@lotus.waterloo.edu
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