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Article #30506Re: Benchmarking C Compilers (was Re: L
From: Marc T. Kaufman
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1988 19:40
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1988 19:40
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In article <76000275@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >I really doubt that Green Hills marketing hype (6900+ Dhrystone for C >under A/UX). Perhaps the compiler is tracking down & removing dead >code! That isn't fair -- the entire benchmark is supposed to be "live >code"... au contraire, my boy, removing dead code is EXACTLY what is wanted from an optimizing compiler. Along with loop strength reduction, address merging, register marking, common subexpression elimination, etc., etc. Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!decwrl!labrea!polya!kaufman From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Benchmarking C Compilers (was Re: L Message-ID: <3358@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 22 Jul 88 19:40:28 GMT References: <3133@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <76000275@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 11