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From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
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Subject: Re: IBM mainframe compilers produce object code or invoke assembler?
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the moderator wrote:
>[They produce code directly.  Unix compilers are pretty much the only ones
>that run through the assembler, and that's because the PDP-11 Unix system
>had an assembler so fast that it wasn't much slower than generating the
>object files directly. -John]

Sadly, modern Unix assemblers are slower.  When Ken Thompson wrote the
C compiler(s) for Plan 9, he went to generating object code directly.
And that was circa 1989!
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