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- From: matte@plutonium.CChem.Berkeley.EDU (Matt Rose)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Short run down on BP7
- Date: 20 Dec 1992 23:30:58 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
- Lines: 47
- Message-ID: <1h2vniINN850@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- I'm running on a 33-386DX with 4MB of RAM, and I find that a
- rebuild of 58000 lines of code takes about a minute. I can't even
- begin to compare that to the several minutes I used to wait on
- rebuilding my C code.
-
-
- >Yeah, but how much memory and disk space does it really use?
- >I'm referring specifically to TD286/386, and BPW, which is what I'd
- >be using. "Barely makes a dent in it"? Fine. But you have gobs and gobs
- >of memory....
- >
- >regards,
- > Steve
-
- Like I said, 4MB RAM has done me fine, although during the rebuild I
- have to make sure I link to disk, otherwise I run out of memory. But
- I must say, I _much_ prefer this to having to use the command line compiler.
-
- Oh, another bonus is that if I compile to a protected mode application
- I can now run this through the protected mode debugger. The real mode
- app will not fit in memory with the real mode compiler. Not that there
- are a few device calls that were not a problem in the Real mode that are
- a problem in the protected mode. Admitedly they are bad calls (off screen
- etc.) but just know that switching compilers can leave run time errors
- that are not imediately detected.
-
- I was obviously using overlays to fit this program into
- real mode. Took me about 3 minutes to remove all overlay references, and
- make the code compile into protected mode.
-
- If any of you are using windows you probably will be happy to know that
- BGI now works quite nicely in a protected mode DOS window.
- I say the BP7 is a major step forward.
-
- >Oh, by the way, I'd also be interested in knowing if:
- >
- >- BP7-compiled Windows apps run under Win3.0 and Win3.1. My program
- > compiled with TPW1.0 under Win3.0 runs fine under 3.0 but crashes
- > immediately under 3.1.
- It's worked fine for me. Although I wouldn't know if my windows(tm)
- apps run under Win3.0 since I don't have Win3.0 anymore.
-
- >
- >- BP7's Windows EXE files are any smaller than TPW's are.
-
- -matt
-
-