Re: Kyan Optimizer

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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: In article <44a6c1de$0$833$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr>,
:  "Guillaume Tello" <houten.van@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
:
: > Hi,
: >
: > Has anybody a documentation about the kyan pascal's OPTIMIZER (OP)?
: > Or just a short description of its parameters, if any...
: >
: > I could use it this way:
: >
: > OP P.OUT
: > then it outputs a new OP.OUT and a new A.OUT.
: >
: > But I don't notice any speed improvement!
: >
: > Guillaume.
:
: If you don't give op a file name, it assumes P.OUT. So I usually just
: type op and manually rename a.out when I copy it.
:
: Sometimes there isn't much speed improvement. The optimization is that
: the system library doesn't have to be loaded; only the routines you use
: get compiled into the executable. You get back the $9000-$BEFF area of
: memory.

The word OPTIMIZE does not mean to speed up. It can inadvertantly
speed things up, but not necessarily. It could, in effect, slow things down.

Bill Garber