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- From: u055@csx.cciw.ca (James Sprenger)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Faster Pascal
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.034011.3261@csx.cciw.ca>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 03:40:11 GMT
- References: <mitchell.11@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> <warren.3.0@chchp.ac.nz>
- Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
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- In article <warren.3.0@chchp.ac.nz> warren@chchp.ac.nz (wmcivor@admin.chchp.ac.nz) writes:
- >MITCHELL JAMES writes:
- >>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.
- >
- >According to some guff I recieved in the mail yesterday, Stony Brook have
- >released a Pascal compiler 100% source compatible with Turbo Pascal.
- >Amoungst the claims is that it's up to 100% percent faster and produces code
- >up to 30% smaller.
- >
- >I don't know anything about this pascal, but you might be interested in
- >having a look.
- >
- >Warren....
-
- Well I broke down and spent a couple of hundred bucks ($US) to evaluate
- Stoney Brook PASCAL+ and let me say this... If it is 100% TP compatible,
- it doesn't come that way 'right out of the box'... I'm still puttering
- around with it (2 months later).
-
- I haven't been able to compile ANY of my TP6.0 code!
-
- Yes, there are probably 50 or so configuration switches, modes, and other
- i's to dot and t's to cross, and it is likely that I missed some, but it
- seems to me that the '100% TP compatible' selling feature should be
- implemented with a metacommand in the source code {$TP_COMPAT} or
- something like that for boobs like me. I think TASM does this 100% compat
- with MASM with some sort of metacommand.
-
- I hate it when I HAVE to read the manuals!
-
- Later!
-
- -- James --
-
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