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posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 08.09.2010, 06:58

> > My P166 has OW 1.8 and TC++ 1.01. Both are freely available (loosely
> > speaking, you pedants). For instance, BEF.C from bef-2.21.zip (Chris
> > Pressey) compiles and UPXes to approx. 17k in OW but 10k in TC++. So it
> is
> > smaller, but only because (says Tom Ehlert) that it's a "dumber"
> compiler
> > (one-pass??).
> I NEVER said anything even remotely similar to this (and hate to be
> misquoted).
Long time no see!! :-)

Sorry, I thought I paraphrased it "good enough"!

> you might be referring to the fact that the TC kernel.sys UPXes better then
> the OWC kernel.sys (the TC code is still larger), where I guessed that this
> is probably because the TC code generator is more stupid - and as a side
> effect better compressable.
Yes.

I just couldn't remember offhand if the TC code was smaller before or after UPX. I certainly didn't mean TC is "better" at codegen or output speed or anything.

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