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Subject: Re: Can a Programming Language Cause Engines to be Slow?

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 09:33:53 11/13/02

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On November 13, 2002 at 12:13:59, Bob Durrett wrote:

[snip]
>But is it not true that C, for example, used on a Linux machine is somewhat
>different from C used on a Windows machine?  The choice of operating system
>surely must impact the guts of the language used. Maybe the language, such as C,
>is better suited for use with one OS than another.  True?
>

I think what you are getting at is that there are different versions of
compilers for different OS's, e.g. MSVC for windows produces code that is ~10%
faster than gcc for linux.



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