C "neatener" - another example (#9)

[mark at umcp-cs.UUCP]

Ok.  I already sent one mild flame objecting to the "mad neatener",
and trying to quietly argue that C doesn't do nearly so bad a job
as to be called a neatener.  But now, claiming that bliss is
better because it uses 3 clrl's where C uses one and two movl's
is just plain wrong.  On my vax, movl's are faster than clrl's.
(780 with no FPA.)  Not much faster, but enough so that a little
loop doing a million of them does a little better than a little
loop doing a million clrl's, time and time again.

So bliss does it wrong.
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