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- Item 7062740 8-Nov-89 17:33
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- From: ARBOGAST Peat Marwick, Chris Arbogast,VCA
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- To: BEL0076 Hermes Systems SA
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Re, to Limitations of MacApp
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- BEL0076,
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- We have also built such an application. There are lots of things that 'get
- you' when the application becomes this large.
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- It's been months since we could compile a qDebug version. Just to many
- jump table entries for the linker. Link is not particularly friendly about
- this. Usually it just hangs or crashes.
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- We've had to do all of our builds with -clean turned on since we now
- overflow the symbol table information that pascal keeps around otherwise. This
- happens before it should because of bugs in the 3.0 and 3.1ß compilers.
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- Turnaround time is horrendous, now made worse by -clean. On a Mac IIci
- with a MPW partition > 2.5 Megs. It takes One hour and 15 minutes to do a full
- recompile with -autobuild. Fastest turnaround for changes to a single
- implementation file run about 4 - 6 minutes depending on the file.
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- The recently mentioned USES nightmare (bug) in Pascal has been hell. In
- order to manage a project of this size it has to broken up into seperate units.
- Good luck.
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- We had to resegment some of the resident segments in MapApp because the
- native sementation blows the CODE size limit of 32K when you actually use most
- of it. (ie it is not being dead stripped) I can't recall exactly but I believe
- we changed the mapping of MAScroll from GRes to ARes in the Basic Definitions
- file to get around this one.
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- As you can see, we've definitly run into some walls. Still, I'm not sure
- if there exists another Object capable environment with a mature class library
- for the Mac that could handle this any better.
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- Chris Arbogast
- KPMG Peat, Marwick, Main, & Co.
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