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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!mips!mips!decwrl!access.usask.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!kaarts
  3. From: kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts)
  4. Subject: Re: SASC 6.0 (food for thought)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug25.221919.12437@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
  6. Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
  7. References: <25440014@hpsad.sad.hp.com> <BtHqsn.Cyv@unx.sas.com> <1992Aug25.011316.708@crd.ge.com> <BtJLKF.KAL@unx.sas.com> <1992Aug25.163419.6513@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <BtJw33.A64@unx.sas.com>
  8. Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:19:19 GMT
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  11. In <BtJw33.A64@unx.sas.com> walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker) writes:
  12.  
  13. >We tried this with 5.10, and found that the speed increase was
  14. >negligable (~5%).  The compiler just doesn't seem to benefit much
  15. >from the difference.
  16.  
  17. >I'll put it on the list to try it again, and if it gains us enough
  18. >improvement we'll consider issuing an '030 version, but the gains
  19. >would have to be pretty significant to offset the added technical 
  20. >support complexity.
  21.  
  22. In general, what is the average speedup for a generic program by generating
  23. 030 specific code?
  24.  
  25.     In any case, I am glad that this had already been considered.  Thanks,
  26.  
  27. Ken
  28.