andy (06/28/82)
Hi, Does anybody know whether there is a significant amount of object code expansion when C code is compiled for the 8086? If this code expansion is relatively large does it then degrade performance to below that of other micros? Is the same true for the iapx286 or other micros, e.g., 68000 and z8000? Does anybody know who might be porting Unix to the 8086? Andrew T, Rodnite Periphonics Corp. decvax!harpo!floyd!peri!andy
grunwald (06/30/82)
#R:peri:-12000:uiucdcs:10400003:000:356 uiucdcs!grunwald Jun 29 17:45:00 1982 I think that MicroSoft is porting XENIX, which is a UNIX lookalike to a wide variety of machines, the 8086 included. As far as the code produced by the C compiler -- for the 68000, the compiler that we have (the one from MIT), produces very reasonable code. It's fast enough to do just about anything you want in C, with proper use of register variables.