Buying C for PC - 32 bit compilers?

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

  In answer to part of your question, running under xenix 386, typical
programs run 40-100% longer using the 286 instructions than the 386.
Same machine, o/s and all. Phil Katz' ZIP program uses a 386 is present,
and he claims something like 40% too.

  I have seen a few numbers which would indicate that the NDP C is
slightly faster than Xenix C, but I haven't retested with the newest
version of Xenix C, which does produce better code (and has the ANSI
extensions, too).

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