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1.1     ! root        1: Copyright (c) 1979 Regents of the University of California
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        !             3:    This directory contains the source code for the Version 7 VAX
        !             4: interpreter for Pascal. Following standard convensions, the makefile
        !             5: contains four commands:
        !             6: 
        !             7:        px - compile px
        !             8: 
        !             9:        install - compile and install px in /usr/ucb
        !            10: 
        !            11:        clean - clean out directory
        !            12: 
        !            13:        print - print out a listing of px
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        !            15: 
        !            16: 
        !            17: Bugs and Limitations:
        !            18: 
        !            19:    Runtime error messages could give far more information than they
        !            20: currently do. (eg the actual value of a subscript which is out
        !            21: of range)
        !            22: 
        !            23:    It should be possible to resume execution following many of
        !            24: the runtime errors. (eg fixed overflow, interrupt, etc)
        !            25: 
        !            26: 
        !            27: Comparison of Pascal with C compiler
        !            28: 
        !            29: In an attempt to compare compiled versus interpreted execution speeds
        !            30: the 'Tower of Hanoi' benchmark (see hanoi.p, hanoi.c) was run with 
        !            31: the following results:
        !            32: 
        !            33: Data:
        !            34:        number of disks:                   16
        !            35:        number of moves required:       65535
        !            36: 
        !            37: Compiler, Flags                  Compile       Compile          Run     Run
        !            38:                           Time          Factor          Time   Factor
        !            39: Pi, full tests          0.4u+0.4s        1.0           42.7u     1.0
        !            40: Pi, no tests            0.3u+0.3s        0.7           35.2u     1.2
        !            41: Pc, unoptimized                 3.8u+2.4s        7.7            5.3u     8.1
        !            42: Pc, optimized           4.4u+2.3s        8.4            4.6u     9.3
        !            43: C, unoptimized          1.7u+1.8s        4.4            2.8u    15.3
        !            44: C, optimized            2.0u+2.0s        5.0            2.5u    17.1
        !            45: 
        !            46: Note: The times for Pc and C were obtained by running larger
        !            47: problems and scaling the run times down appropriately.

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