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- Item 4252955 11-Jan-90 07:06
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- From: UK0310 Paul G Smith
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
- CPLUS.APPLE$ C++ Interest List--Apple Employees
- CPLUS.DEV$ C++ Interest List--Developers
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- Sub: C++ & ObjectPascal efficiency
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- C++, Object Pascal, and MacApp users -
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- I have spent a fair amount of time over the last few months participating in
- discussions on another conferencing system called CIX (European BIX) and
- recently there has been a good deal of comment about the relative merits of
- Cfront/MPW C and Object Pascal.
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- Some quite contentious assertions have been made by participants in this
- discussion, who have suggested that:
- {i} MPW C 3.0/3.1 produces poor quality code (markedly inferior to MPW C 2.0);
- {ii} Cfront 2.0 output is inefficient unless optimised by a good C compiler;
- {iii} the combination of MPW Cfront and MPW C 3.1 produces code that is, by
- comparison with MPW Object Pascal, larger and slower;
- {iv} The state of the art of Macintosh compiler technology is at least five
- years behind that of PC and Unix compilers (such as the truly excellent Watcom
- C 7.0);
- {v} The MPW compilation system is just too slow, by comparison with other
- environments, to warrant its use except in cases where a facility absolutely
- neccessary to a project is only available under MPW. This poses a bit of a
- barrier to the acceptability of MacApp, as was first stated in Jeff Alger's
- previous comments along these lines.
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- I'd be very interested to hear what people have to say on the above subjects.
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- Regards, Paul
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