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Re: How to generate discussion



Well, thank you for the reply. Does executor store the native code
it generates on disk or does it regenerate on every restart of the
program? I was looking at the table comparing performance of the
Quadra 610 running 68K code on its 68040 vs the synthetic CPU on
various IBM boxes... would it be possible to compare vs IBM code on
IBM boxes? It seems to me that such a comparison (say 486/66 running
the synthetic benchmarks vs IBM code on same benchmarks) would show
how much farther the synthetic CPU has to go before matching the
performance of compiled code for the IBM. In theory, it seems to me
that the synthetic CPU should be able to match the real one (it would
take alot of analysis... data flow and control flow analysis just like
in a real compiler/optimizer). Am I way off base here? Or is such
analysis too complicated for now? Are there reaons besides time
constraints that heavy optimization isn't performed and then the
results stored on disk?

One more question... how many people are on this list? Also, I should
state that I am glad you guys are up to what you are up to :)