Datalight faster than 4.2, why?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <275 at zeus.UUCP> bobr at zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) writes:
>What's the point?   Sure, it consolidates the C compiler into one less load
>module, but the processing is still done as a separate pass, and should have
>no effect on performance or functionality.

(a) This discussion pertains to a particular implementation of the compiler,
not to the language itself.

(b) UNIX (the implementation being discussed) actually works better if you
let it multitask, rather than insisting on purely sequential execution.