Re: ooc-961022

[Mike Griebling <grieblm@trt.allied.com>]

> Hi.
> 
> There has been considerable progress with oo2c over the last week.
> Quality of emitted code made a huge jump from merely emberrassing to
> quite good.  I did a little benchmark with oo2c itself: the executable
> produced by the oo2c/gcc combination actually ran 10% faster than that
> of o2c/gcc.  I expected the opposite, since oo2c outputs very
> obfuscated code with lots of fine granularity instructions.  In short:
> oo2c does not build C code, but rather assembler that looks like C.  I
> don't have any explanation for the speedup, but it sure came as
> pleasant surprise.

That sounds like good news.  Congratulations Michael!  It will be interesting
to see what happens when we output real assembly code.

I knew there was a use for C--to act as an assembly language for higher
level languages. :-)
 
> Btw: Is anyone interested in having smaller distribution resp. patch
> files?  I could add bzip compressed files to the ftp server.  This
> would save an additional 25% in file size.
>
> -- Michael

Sure.  Smaller is always better--at least when it comes to reducing
internet traffic.  It will also make it easier to transfer ooc over to
the BeBox via diskette--until I make an effort to get the BeBox on the
internet. 

But what is this bzip utility and where can it be found?

Michael Griebling