Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!matthews From: matthews@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: LSP 2.0 ("Smallest code ever?") Message-ID: <11278@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 1 Dec 88 13:01:51 GMT References: <3330@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: matthews@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 15 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