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- From: supnik@human.enet.dec.com (Bob Supnik)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: DEC Alpha performance; whose compiler?
- Summary: Alpha compilers from DEC
- Keywords: compilers, Alpha
- Message-ID: <2233@sousa.tay.dec.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 00:53:12 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.204559.3481@nas.nasa.gov>
- Sender: newsa@sousa.tay.dec.com
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Lines: 15
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- In article <1992Nov16.204559.3481@nas.nasa.gov>, dresselh@rft30.nas.nasa.gov (Eliot Dresselhaus) writes...
- >Who did the Alpha compiler correponding to the released SPECS?
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- These were DEC's compilers, for C and FORTRAN. The compilers are based
- on a common front-end back-end system, developed at DEC and first released
- more than a year ago (with a Mips back end) as DEC FORTRAN V3 and DEC Ada V1.
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- >Someone (DEC folks?) care to measure GCC-2.3's Alpha versus HP-PA SPECs?
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- As the implementers of Zork used to say, feel free...
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- Bob Supnik >Supnik@human.enet.dec.com
- >All opinions expressed are those of a hardline microcoder
- >and do not reflect those of Digital Equipment Corporation
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