From VMS to UNIX

[cak at Purdue.ARPA]

From:  Christopher A Kent <cak at Purdue.ARPA>

As I recall, Bliss was designed to produce extremely tight code, but
not necessarily fast code. C has been rumoured to have exactly the
opposite design goals (I think I've been in this argument before).

It is certainly possible to do better than the VAX Pcc code generator;
it used to be fairly common knowledge that the optimizer wasn't that
great, and often overlooked the obvious. I don't know that Berkeley has
done that much hacking on it.

chris
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