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- From: ed@weir.pa.dec.com (Ed Gould)
- Subject: Re: MVC and MVCL (was Re: RISC Mainframe)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.190506.6168@PA.dec.com>
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- Organization: DEC Network Systems Lab, Palo Alto
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 19:05:06 GMT
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- > And since most of the code is written in assembly language to begin
- > with, compiler optimizations are moot.
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- I don't think this necessarily follows. For example, one of the compiled
- languages for Alpha is Macro-32, i.e., VAX Assembly. It's unusual to think
- of what started out as an assembly language to be run through a compiler,
- but there's nothing magic about it.
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- Ed Gould ed@pa.dec.com Digital Equipment Corporation
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