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- Item 5997407 19-Oct-90 07:37PDT
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- From: PHAROS.TECH Pharos Tech, Tech Staff,PRT
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: RE: Re: RE: macapp debuggery
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- From: Schmitz, Scott D. on Fri, Oct 19, 1990 10:39 AM
- Subject: RE: Re: RE: macapp debuggery
- To: MacApp
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- Nico,
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- since you were skeptical I decided to find out exactly HOW fast MPW was vs
- THINK. I compiled Calc with -debug and -run against the THINK calc.debug.build
- project which is basically the same thing. For a change to the largest unit
- UCalc.p, these were my results:
- Time Disk Space for project
- MPW 3.01 2:00 488k
- THINK Pascal 0:40 1176k
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- I have no problem with the extra disk space usage. I typically only work on a
- few projects at a time. When I am done I can reduce the size of the projects
- to around 35k by removing the "object" code which is in the project. This
- means I need to do a full build when I want to build the App again.
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- I found execution speeds for the final compiled standalones (non-debug) to be
- comparable as well as the final code size.
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- The execution speed of Calc in the THINK environment with it's debugger
- disabled but the MacApp debugger enabled (equilivent to what MPW gives you) was
- comparable to running Calc as a standalone.
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- You have an excellent point regarding execution speed with THINK debugging gear
- on. The execution speed of Calc in the THINK environment with it's debugger
- enabled slows execution speed by at least 2-3 times. Someone posted a patch to
- the MacApp code which speeded things up some.
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- I have found that with the debugger installed, I don't have to debug my code
- with WriteLn's. It's a total pleasure to be able to step through my source
- code's execution and check variables etc. I would estimate that the time I
- spend debugging has at least halved, in spite of the slow debug execution
- speeds after I moved to THINK.
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- THINK does have problems in addition to slow debug execution speeds. Sometimes
- my machine locks up when debugging when I select Reset.
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- Scott.
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- Ok, so THINK's compile/Link times are 3x faster than MPW, but, Project
- files take up to 1.5 Mb, and execution time (under TP) are almose half slower
- than normal (i.e. finder execution). And I'd say that THINK's compile time for
- MacApp isn't 3 times faster than MPW, since it take a looong time to load all
- these tables each time you compile...
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- Nico...
- Nicolas Berloquin
- CFI
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