tsl@hadron.UUCP (Tom S. Livingston) (06/07/88)
I _really_ hate to bring up the ST cc compiler again, but I saw this article in comp.sys.atari.st: >In article <1068@atari.UUCP>, apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes: >> Compiler Mode NOREG REG >> >> MINIX CC 522 522 >> AZTEC C 3.6 32 bit large 772 830 >> AZTEC C 3.6 32 bit small 779 837 >> ALCYON 4.14 847 859 >> Megamax 2.0 874 919 >> MWC 2.0 996 1042 >> AZTEC C 3.6 16 bit large 1058 1128 >> Megamax 1.0 1063 1136 >> AZTEC C 3.6 16 bit small 1070 1142 >> >> These were all using the dhrystone source from Usenet (version 1.1, >> dated 01/31/87 from 01/06/86 from 12/01/84, by Reinhold P. Weicker, >MJC 2.0 (Mark Johnson's shareware C compiler) does 950 Dhrystones (NOREG) >with version 2 Dhrystone. (Many of the figures there won't be too meaningful to comp.os.minix readers, but I left it in there to show the shear volume of C compilers that out did the MINIX cc) So, with those figures in mind, I want to ask: Is this true? The figures come from a reliable source, so I'm inclined to believe them, but I really don't want to. If they are so, here's question #2: Will there be support for such C compilers as Mark Williams C (nearly double the performance) or Mark Johnson's C (close to MWC, but shareware)? It seems to me that the one's hoping for the ST version of MINIX to come along may be rather disappointed with its performance. Tom Livingston ( tsl@hadron.UUCP || uunet!hadron!tsl )