From: "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Code size of Ada ? was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.
Date: 1999/10/19
Date: 1999-10-19T16:29:32+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <380C9D99.610F9614@mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5OkO3.2$1e.659@typhoon.nyu.edu
Richard Kenner wrote:
> You seem to be characterizing Alpha as a hard-to-program chip, but I wouldn't
> agree with that.
Neither would I.
> Some of the later models had complex enough multi-issue
> rules that instruction scheduling was quite complex, but that's only
> fairly recent. The problem with Alpha early on was simply that the original
> DEC compilers generated appalling quality of code, but I did the original
> GCC port to the Alpha and it wasn't a particularly hard port to do.
As I remember it, the C compiler did generate appalling code, but
most of the other early compilers were merely poor, characteristic of a
new architecture.
--
Robert I. Eachus
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1999-09-27 0:00 Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses the middleman
1999-09-27 0:00 ` J. David Bryan
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28 0:00 ` bill
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-27 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-09-28 0:00 ` the middleman
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` GNAT listing file default names (was: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses) Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Code size of Ada ? was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-09-29 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Code size of Ada ? Robert I. Eachus
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1999-10-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus [this message]
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Code size of Ada ? was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses tmoran
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` p.obry
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Pragma (was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.) Preben Randhol
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-09-29 0:00 ` the middleman
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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