Re: C programming langauge on Apple II

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

Eric wrote:

> Yes, but compare cc65 to the execution speed of Applesoft, and even
> Apple Pascal. I bet it's faster than them and if you're familiar with C
> that might be plenty good.

Oh, sure, it'll be faster than both of those examples, but I think
you'll find the codesize is rather large :-)

> Once Hendrix has optimized the intermediate code, he sends it through a
> final native code generation phase. This can't compete with commercial
> compilers/optimizers but it's surprisingly effective given the
> relatively few lines of code it requires.

Nice. I'll have to take a look sometime.

Matt