Lousy code generation (Re: MoriaGS 5.3.1 coming...)

[jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner)]

nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) writes:

>As a player of the previous "version" for the Apple IIGS, Rogue, I can only
>say that I hope you're not using MPW C to compile it. Rogue had one of the
>worst bits of bloated machine language generated of any compiler around.
>MPW compared 2 numbers by subtracting them, and a lot of other stuff that
>made the code lots bigger than it needed to be, and definitely slower.

Subtracting two numbers takes just as long (or short) as comparing
them.  I think you'll need to come up with a better example than that.
What else about MPW C's generated code is bloated?
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Jerry Penner   jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca   or   jjp@myrias.ab.ca