Re: Folk Theorem: Assemblers are superior to Compilers

|> [In the PC tools biz, there seems to be a large market for compilers that
|> produce very fast but wrong code. Don't ask me why. -John]


Actually, the market is for compilers which produce very fast code for a
number of small benchmarks. I had the occasion to evalute a couple of C
compilers a few years ago, and found that with one of the best selling
compilers at the time, turning on optimization caused the programs to be
bigger and run slower, in all compilation models except small. What real
application will run in small model? On the other hand, guess which model
is used by Byte et al. when they run their benchmarks.
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