[net.arch] Benchmarks and C/Unix

steve@gondor.UUCP (Stephen J. Williams) (04/23/86)

In article <2107@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
>> Here I will agree with you.  In particular, languages that make the
>> machine appear to have a uniform address space (C is a good example)
>> require kludges for performance on machines without that (80286).
>
>This brings up an interesting topic that I was just thinking about last
>night.  Viz., how might one provide better architectural support for C?

Why would one want to?  Wasn't C sort of written for PDP-11s?

--Scal