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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Compiler for Z80/6510
Date: 1999/11/26
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In article <s3rhigaqa4r69@corp.supernews.com>,
  "Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com> wrote:
> There are of course some special cases when using assembler
> one can easily outperform GNAT in up to 8 times on  the IA32
> platform but I think that next GNAT releases will leave no
> such opportunities. I think it is quite obvious what these
> cases are :-).

I have no idea what Vladimir is talking about here. There are
certainly cases where GNAT, like all other compilers I know
of does not generate optimal code, but

a) I do not know of specific cases that Vladimir is talking of
b) No one around here would claim that all such cases will be
     removed in the next release!


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