Re: Is There Still a Need for "Turbo" Compilers?

Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:09:12 +0000 (UTC)

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From: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:09:12 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Stack Usenet News Service
References: 08-03-067
Keywords: performance
Posted-Date: 18 Mar 2008 09:08:04 EDT

On 2008-03-17, Jon Forrest <jlforrest@berkeley.edu> wrote:


> However, these days there aren't any "Turbo" language implementations
> that I'm aware of. Is this because modern hardware is so fast that it
> isn't worth developing compilers and linkers optimized for speed? By
> using proper command line arguments to gcc, can you get quasi-Turbo
> performance compared to using arguments that result in
> highly-optimized code?


Note that at least a significant part of the speed differences between
"Turbo*" and gcc don't come from optimization but the integration of
the various stages of the compiling process.


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