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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: "C" vrs ADA
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> Well then if DEC is unenthusiastic about C the people responsible for unix
> (B&B) must be somnabulistic since the VAX C compiler beats the pants
> 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?
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"There's a lot more to do in space   |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
than sending people to Mars." --Bova | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry