Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!husc6!bbn!oberon!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!woody From: woody@tybalt.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What C compiler generates fastest code? Message-ID: <7142@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 3 Jul 88 21:58:18 GMT References: <14105@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <7069@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: woody@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (William Edward Woody) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 15 The word I have is that the MPW C compiler version 2.0, provided by Greenhills is considered one of the best optimizing C compilers nowadays, and is the same front-end which appears on several mainframe C compilers. However, I don't have any statistics to back up this statement... After having worked with the MPW C compiler for quite some time, and delving into the guts of the generated assembly, it sure does look very optimal. And the MPW C compiler does support the 68020 and the 68881, but the code generated for those processors is not as optimal as possible. - William Edward Woody woody@tybalt.caltech.edu (Mac>][n&&/|\)&&(MacII>AT) Disclamer: I haven't the foggiest idea what I'm talking about...