[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[Chris Byrne]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
> 
> 
>    The impression I get is that, in general, it's great for CISC 
> processors and crappy for anything RISC or post-RISC.  I know for a 
> fact that it's very good for VAX and m68k (two extremely CISC 
> processors) and x86 (definitely CISC).
> 
>         -Dave

Which is unsurprising because IIRC it was originally developed on the
PDP, it's first major microcomputer port was to the m68k, and the vast
majority of its development and optimization for the past ten years has
been on x86.

Anybody know of a compiler speed comparison (as in fastest running
output) for the major architectures?

Chris Byrne