DOS ain't dead

8086 is fairly useless (Announce)

posted by tom , Germany (West), 07.09.2010, 19:47

> Now you could back up TC's alleged ability to produce small code.
whoever said this is fairly clueless. what version of TC by the way ?

> Do you
> have the necessary setup to compare a TC compile of TFK with an OpenWatcom
> compile?
we compared them loooong time ago (~2001).

TC 2.01 and TCC 1.0 produce significant larger code (I remember ~20%) then OpenWatcom, even after a lot of hand-optimizing TFK for the not very much optimizing TC

Complete thread:

• NASM version 2.09 available - rr, 25.08.2010, 13:27 (Announce)
  • NASM version 2.09 available - DOS386, 26.08.2010, 09:10
    • NASM version 2.09 available - ecm, 26.08.2010, 20:10
      • NASM version 2.09 available - DOS386, 27.08.2010, 03:16
      • NASM version 2.09 available - marcov, 27.08.2010, 17:10
        • NASM version 2.09 available - Rugxulo, 28.08.2010, 04:53
          • NASM version 2.09 available - ecm, 30.08.2010, 21:40
            • NASM version 2.09 available - Rugxulo, 03.09.2010, 05:51
              • NASM version 2.09 available - Arjay, 03.09.2010, 13:14
              • NASM version 2.09 available - ecm, 03.09.2010, 14:40
                • NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - DOS386, 06.09.2010, 20:06
                  • NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Rugxulo, 06.09.2010, 22:27
                    • NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - DOS386, 06.09.2010, 22:37
                      • NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Arjay, 07.09.2010, 18:19
                        • NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - ecm, 07.09.2010, 18:53
                    • NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Arjay, 07.09.2010, 07:33
                    • NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - ecm, 07.09.2010, 16:22
                      • NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Rugxulo, 07.09.2010, 16:59
                        • NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Arjay, 07.09.2010, 18:04
                          • NASM version 2.09 available | A86 - ecm, 07.09.2010, 19:15
                            • NASM version 2.09 available | A86 - Arjay, 07.09.2010, 19:58
                              • NASM version 2.09 available | A86 - ecm, 07.09.2010, 22:42
                                • NASM 2.09 available | A86 | FASM | Arjay's 8086+80386 PC's - DOS386, 08.09.2010, 01:05
                                  • FASM and OMF - Japheth, 08.09.2010, 09:26
                                    • 16-bit DOS COBOL, 16-bit DOS PASCAL, 16-bit DOS C, 16-bit - DOS386, 08.09.2010, 19:40
                                      • 16-bit DOS COBOL, 16-bit DOS PASCAL, 16-bit DOS C, 16-bit - ecm, 08.09.2010, 19:45
                                        • 16-bit DOS COBOL, 16-bit DOS PASCAL, 16-bit DOS C, 16-bit - DOS386, 08.09.2010, 19:53
                                          • FASM is copylefted - ecm, 08.09.2010, 20:02
                                  • NASM - FASM - ecm, 08.09.2010, 15:09
                                  • NASM 2.09 available | A86 | FASM | Arjay's 8086+80386 PC's - Arjay, 08.09.2010, 22:12
                                    • NASM 2.09 available | A86 | FASM | Arjay's 8086+80386 PC's - DOS386, 11.09.2010, 01:23
                                      • NASM - FASM license - ecm, 11.09.2010, 01:53
                                      • NASM 2.09 available | A86 | FASM | Arjay's 8086+80386 PC's - Arjay, 13.09.2010, 13:31
                            • NASM version 2.09 available | A86 - Rugxulo, 08.09.2010, 06:56
                          • NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Rugxulo, 08.09.2010, 06:28
                        • NASM version 2.09 available | A86 and kernels - ecm, 07.09.2010, 18:42
                          • NASM version 2.09 available | A86 and kernels - Rugxulo, 08.09.2010, 06:49
                            • NASM version 2.09 available | A86 and kernels - ecm, 08.09.2010, 20:30
                            • NASM version 2.09 available | A86 and kernels - ecm, 11.09.2010, 12:27
                              • Debian/OW ... FASM - Rugxulo, 11.09.2010, 23:44
                                • Debian/OW ... FASM - ecm, 12.09.2010, 02:40
                                  • Debian/OW ... FASM - Rugxulo, 12.09.2010, 04:18
                                    • Debian/OW ... FASM - ecm, 12.09.2010, 14:29
                                      • FASM's license - Rugxulo, 12.09.2010, 22:18
                                        • FASM's license - ecm, 12.09.2010, 23:12
                                          • FASM's license - Rugxulo, 13.09.2010, 01:49
                                            • FASM's license - ecm, 13.09.2010, 14:13
                                              • FASM's license - Rugxulo, 13.09.2010, 22:27
                                                • FASM's license - ecm, 14.09.2010, 15:50
                                                  • FASM's license - Rugxulo, 15.09.2010, 23:29
                                                    • FASM's license - ecm, 16.09.2010, 00:03
                                                      • code density - Rugxulo, 16.09.2010, 21:10
                                                        • code density - ecm, 17.09.2010, 14:15
                                                          • code density - Rugxulo, 17.09.2010, 23:06
                                                            • code density - ecm, 18.09.2010, 02:18
                                                              • code density - Rugxulo, 19.09.2010, 20:23
                                                                • code density - ecm, 19.09.2010, 20:27
                                                                  • this messy thread - DOS386, 13.10.2010, 04:17
                                                                    • this messy thread - Rugxulo, 13.10.2010, 04:50
                                                                      • this messy thread - ecm, 14.10.2010, 13:01
                        • NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - tom, 07.09.2010, 19:58
                          • NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Rugxulo, 08.09.2010, 06:58
                      • 8086 is fairly useless - tom, 07.09.2010, 19:47
                        • 8086 is fairly useless - ecm, 07.09.2010, 19:55
                  • NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Arjay, 07.09.2010, 07:26
                  • NASM version 2.09 available | NASM manual - ecm, 07.09.2010, 16:30
                • NASM version 2.09 available - Rugxulo, 13.10.2010, 06:15
      • 8086-NASM - Japheth, 14.09.2010, 15:04
        • 8086-JWASM - ecm, 14.09.2010, 15:33