[comp.sys.atari.st] C Compiler empty program

LSI@UMass.BITNET (Peter Lawall, Logical Solutions, (413) 256-6800) (01/12/87)

Here are two more code sizes for the "empty program":
main()
{}

Old Version of Alcyon C on CP/M68K: 9856 bytes!
LightSpeed C on the Macintosh     : 1544 bytes

Compile, link, and save application times are:
Alcyon C (ramdisk) : 21 seconds
LightSpeed C (Hard disk) : 6 seconds

   The large code size and long compile/link times for Alcyon sure seem
to indicate pretty inefficient compiler code!  But anyone who has used
it already knows that -- it seems to do all compiling, linking, etc one
sector at a time rather than buffering files in memory and reading/writing
them in one fell swoop...  Like the CP/M68K "ED" editor that supports
a fixed edit buffer of a whopping 22K regardless of how many megs of
memory your computer has...  Digital Research & Alcyon, a marriage made
in ................

I am in no way connected with DRI or Alcyon (fortunately!)