baskett@decwrl.UUCP (Forest Baskett) (03/06/84)
------------------------------------------- > Personnally I can understand why the Fortran compiler is an embarrasement, > considering the attitude in this community toward Fortran. However, I > cannot understand why Unix does not come with a super-optimizing C compiler, > as any increase in the speed of the code produced will speed up all of Unix. > Surely by now better could be done. > -- > Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics Yes, but have you ever heard of a Portable Bliss Compiler? The effort has simply been in different directions. Alan S. Driscoll AT&T Bell Laboratories -------------------------------------------- Ah, but in six months Mike Powell produced a portable, optimizing Modula-2 compiler that produces better code than the Bliss-32 compiler for the VAX and MUCH better code than pcc. While he hasn't actually demonstrated it's portability yet, it does go thru an intermediate language that has been used on numerous other machines. We should have some demonstrations soon. And, following up Mark Callow's comment, Mike's compiler comes with complete support for dbx debugging! (PS: The dbx effort has moved to Stanford.) Forest Baskett - DEC Western Research Laboratory