vme131!lsi4!jecel@uunet.UU.NET writes:

Why is the Self compiler always compared with optimizing C? Since it does many run-time checks I would think that Self would be more fairly compared to Pascal.

And, in the interests of completeness, which C compiler are you comparing against. I don't know about the Sparcstation, but on a Sun 3 you can get a factor-of-two performance improvement simply by using gcc instead of Sun cc.