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From: matthews@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LSP 2.0 ("Smallest code ever?")
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Date: 1 Dec 88 13:01:51 GMT
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In article <3330@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> jedeline@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Jim Deline) writes:
>
>The ads for Lightspeed Pascal 2.0 say that it produces the
>tightest, fastest code of all Pascal compilers.  Well, I 
>received my upgrade yesterday, and when I compiled a program
>I had written with version 1.11 it was 7K larger!!

A medium-size (110k of object code) program of mine was around 25%
larger when compiled by LSP 1.11 compared to MPW Pascal.  With LSP 2.0,
it is 1% *smaller*.  My collegues have also seen dramatic improvements
compared to version 1.11, and less dramatic improvements over MPW.  So
the advertising hype has rung true for us.

Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Software Development