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- From: dtaylor@pifus.com (David Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Borland C++ 5.0 PRICE-E!!!
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 96 14:35:31 GMT
- Organization: Pifus Inc.
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- In article <1996Feb20.142539.14223@pat.uwe.ac.uk>, jp-morri@csm.uwe.ac.uk (J
- Morris) wrote:
- >In article <4gcfi7$log@mp.cs.niu.edu>, z929171@cs.niu.edu (kim sang woo)
- > writes:
- >> From developer point of view, BC++ eleminated DOS support long time ago.
- >> Borland C++ v3.1 out performs BC++ v4.0/4.5 when it comes to targeting
- >> DOS application. It is true that BC++ still let you target DOS, but it is
- >> totally useless unless you are developing dos extended application.
- >>
- >> I don't care if I don't have IDE for DOS, but I cannot stand it when my
- >> 15K application takes 50K to run (esp. with DOS, you only have 640K to work
- > with)
- >
- >I agree completely.
- >I use BC V4.5 for developing DPMI applications, and V2.0 for developing
- >DOS programs. V2 is much faster, nicer and the resulting code is MUCH smaller
- >that it would be under 4.5.
-
- With Borland 4.5 if you turn off exception handling (using the -x- command and
- the noeh?.lib) you should get smaller EXE's. As well turning of RTTI with
- -RT- should help as well. You have to realize that a number the newer C++
- features can really add to the size of code, such as heavy use of templates.
- I don't think it is only DOS programs which are getting larger.
-
- Dave
- dtaylor@pifus.com
-