Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!UMass.BITNET!LSI From: LSI@UMass.BITNET (Peter Lawall, Logical Solutions, (413) 256-6800) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: C Compiler empty program Message-ID: <870112013610.00000235.ABHR.VE@UMass> Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 01:36:10 EST Article-I.D.: UMass.870112013610.00000235.ABHR.VE Posted: Mon Jan 12 01:36:10 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Jan-87 06:43:41 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 21 Here are two more code sizes for the "empty program": main() {} Old Version of Alcyon C on CP/M68K: 9856 bytes! LightSpeed C on the Macintosh : 1544 bytes Compile, link, and save application times are: Alcyon C (ramdisk) : 21 seconds LightSpeed C (Hard disk) : 6 seconds The large code size and long compile/link times for Alcyon sure seem to indicate pretty inefficient compiler code! But anyone who has used it already knows that -- it seems to do all compiling, linking, etc one sector at a time rather than buffering files in memory and reading/writing them in one fell swoop... Like the CP/M68K "ED" editor that supports a fixed edit buffer of a whopping 22K regardless of how many megs of memory your computer has... Digital Research & Alcyon, a marriage made in ................ I am in no way connected with DRI or Alcyon (fortunately!)