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- From: jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner)
- Subject: Re: Modula-2 for the Apple IIGS
- Message-ID: <jpenne.716018949@ee.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- References: <1992Sep7.023511.20529@nuscc.nus.sg> <1992Sep8.054755.22793@sfu.ca> <behrenss.715950428@hphalle6>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 06:09:09 GMT
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- behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) writes:
-
- >akostur@fraser.sfu.ca (Andre John Kostur) writes:
-
- >The latter. Both of them. I do not know who will distribute the German Modula-2
- >in the US, or how it compares to the ORCA Modula-2.
-
- >It is apparently available, and the guys that did it had some benchmarks that
- >showed it drowning ORCA/Pascal ;-).
-
- Hmm. Sounds promising. In what ways did it drown Orca/Pascal,
- though? Compilation speed? Speed of generated code?
-
- >P.S.: As for C++ ... couldn't we just port the front-end? Might be that AT&T
- >would go berserk, but what the heck ... it's just the lowly // ;-) Just
- >kidding.
-
- Just port GNU g++! :-) (times a million) Actually, porting gcc would
- be quite the challenge since you'd have to totally rewrite the code
- generator as it's made for machines with a reasonable number of
- (fairly orthogonal) registers. It has been ported to the 386/486 but
- there are a couple more people using them than IIgs's. :-)
-
- Actually, more than anything, I'd like to see a C compiler that
- compiles fast and produces good code. Other than C++, I don't really
- need to use anything other than C and assembly. And you're not going
- to get a fast C++ compiler if you can't get a fast C compiler...
- --
- Jerry Penner jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca Try a 1-line .sig today.
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