[Oberon] A CASE quiz

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Andreas Pirklbauer
> Sent: Monday, 19 February 2018 10:14 AM
> To: oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch
> Subject: [Oberon] A CASE quiz
> 
>   > The increase in size of the compiler sources is
>   > about 250 lines of code, i.e. an increase of 7%.
>   > ...
>   > Chris Burrows
> In the Oberon compiler for Oberon on Ceres, which targets the
> NS32000, the implementation is about 120 lines of code, (procedures
> Compiler.{CaseLabelList, StatSeq.CasePart}, OCH.{CaseIn, CaseOut}),
> and uses a straightforward method to construct the jump table in
> OCH.CaseOut (from lowest to highest bound).
> 
> 
> Difference between CISC and RISC or do you some special optimization
> not present in the Ceres implementation?
> 

No - I just can't count properly :-(

I checked again and the numbers of additional lines in ORP and ORG together is actually 177. I would say this is comparable to the Ceres implementation. Any disparity could be explained by different formatting styles. 

Regards,
Chris Burrows

CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com