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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:07:42 -0700
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> This is probably true. I am making program XaoS (wich is realtime fractal
> zoomer) and it is completly coded in C and speed is really significant.
> I found GCC as the best compiler for that (I done tests at Watcom, VC,
> Borland etc) and GCC won, at least in FP mset calcualtion loop it seems to
> be best optimizing compiler around (and egcs (pre-gcc3.0) got another 30%
> speedup) So I don't think that GCC generates ugly code. See Borland one
> instead :)

Yes, I am familliar with Xaos.  Have you seen mandel.exe?  You can 
find it at:

    http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/9498/mandel.zip

It uses WATCOM C/C++ for most of the code, but for the most 
*executed* code, it is pure assembly language.

- qed