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Article #30371Re: LightspeedC 3.0 Review (long)
From: Matthew Kennel
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1988 19:22
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1988 19:22
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In article <76000259@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >Recently, Comp.arch listed the results of a Dhrystone test of >different C compilers. The results included LightspeedC, at 2467 >Dhrystones, and also Sun 3/50's, at as much as 4000+ Dhrystones on a >16.67Mhz 68020 (gcc compiler). So I don't think that LightspeedC is >nearly as fast as possible. A better compiler for the same CPU (at >1Mhz more clocks) runs almost 8/5 as fast! Oh well, some day we will >have extremely efficient compilers for the macintosh.... I hope. Yup, GNU CC is _very_ good! And it's free! Is there anybody interested in porting it to the Mac? I suspect there might be a big problem in object file format, etc. Matt Kennel (kennel@cognet.ucla.edu )
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