Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!vuwcomp!newbery From: newbery@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Compiler efficiency Message-ID: <13091@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 17:17:48 EST Article-I.D.: comp.13091 Posted: Wed Nov 25 17:17:48 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 21:02:07 EST References: <3987@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <304@fairlight.oz> Reply-To: newbery@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) Organization: Computing Serv. Ctr, Victoria Uni., Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 13 A paper was presented at a local Apple Consortium Developers conference a couple of days ago on the efficiency of four Pascal compilers: MPW, LSP, Turbo & TML. The authors can be reached via michael@otago.ac.nz (internet address) but in summary, MPW is the best of a bad bunch (except for string assignments). AVOID sets if using LSP or TML, the code is horrendous. None of them are up to things like constant sub-expression elimination and auto-increment/decrement seems to be an almost unknown address mode. -- Michael Newbery ACSnet: newbery@vuwcomp.nz UUCP: newbery@vuwcomp Une boule qui roule tue les poules. (Landslides kill chickens)