Datalight faster than 4.2, why?

[Robert Reed]

In article <697 at bu-cs.UUCP> bzs at bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
>
> I wonder out loud how hard it would be to turn CPP into a subroutine,
> change its main() to cpp_main() and set up the call in the main() of
> ccom,...

What's the point?   Sure, it consolidates the C compiler into one less load
module, but the processing is still done as a separate pass, and should have
no effect on performance or functionality.