#Opening Screens Quietly
02-Jan-87 11:50:31
Sb: #Opening Screens Quietly
Fm: John Freeman 72437,2057
To: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
Agreed that is an important proviso. I suppose the appropriate comparison is
any person who knows assembly, wants to write the most compact program
available (and fast), and whether the compiler can beat them. For a novice, "C"
would be better, perhaps. For an expert programmer, and I consider myself an
expert 68000 programmer, I have yet to see any C compiler beat my coding. The
best compiler I've seen to date is the Microsoft version 4.0 C compiler for the
IBM PC. Even there, I can still beat it over extended code sequences. The
output from Amiga Lattice C is nowhere near optimum. I don't have Aztec so I
can't judge its efficiency.
One could make the analogy of a chess program's ability. It might be able to
beat 90% of all chess players; but if you want a grandmaster performance,
there's still no such program…