Re: "C" vrs ADA

[ram%shukra@Sun.COM (Renu Raman, Sun Microsystems)]

In article <8495@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > Well then if DEC is unenthusiastic about C the people responsible for unix
> > off of pcc.
> 
> If you read the documentation (radical notion...) you will find that pcc
> was built for portability, not for dazzling code generation.  In that area,
> pcc beats the pants off the VAX C compiler.  Also, are you comparing VAX C
> to current versions of pcc, or to the decade-old quick-and-dirty first-cut
> one from 32V that is still (last I looked) used in 4BSD?
> -- 
> "There's a lot more to do in space   |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology

	A few days back, I had been to a talk by Richard Stallman (of GNU fame)
	He told that the gcc (Gnu C Compiler) generates better code than
	Greenhills C & Tartan C - Now that is something amazing.  
	(I doubt if VAX C can be better than Tartan - which does some
         fancy optimizations and VAX C is non-portable)
	Definitely a "truly" retargetable compiler generating better code
	than Tartan/Greenhills speaks for itslef.  has anybody done any
	comparison with the VAX C compiler?

	Sorry Ada guys - this is not relevant here - but you might excuse me
	for once :-)

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