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- Date: Monday, 4 January 1993 22:30:01 MST
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- From: "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com>
- Organization: Nobody but me -- really
- References: <mitchell.11@odie.ee.wits.ac.za>
- Subject: Re: Faster Pascal
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
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- In <mitchell.11@odie.ee.wits.ac.za>, mitchell@odie.ee.wits.ac.za (MITCHELL JAMES) wrote:
- # Bascially, I'm trying to find a way to run Pascal code faster. I have access
- # to a 486 but this is woefully inadequate (for my needs at least). I was
- # wondering if a version of Pascal exists for platforms other than the DOS /
- # PC environment. If I could use a Unix environment for example, I would be
- # able to make use of a Sun workstation (which might be enough). If anyone has
- # experienced/solved the speed problem, I would greatly appreciate their
- # advice. Any replies can be mailed to me (address below) and I'll post a
- # summary of anything that turns up.
-
- You'll get some improvement from, let's say, a Sun over a 486DX2-66,
- but not great gobs. If you're looking for really dramatic
- improvements the only way you'll get them is algorithmic improvement.
- If you're already using a known-best algorithm and have checked your
- code with a profiler & optimized the hotspots you probably might
- as well learn patience.
-