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- From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: COMPILING SPEED
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.195620.29281@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 19:56:20 GMT
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- Duncan Murdoch writes:
- >
- >But Turbo Pascal has all of those, and is much faster than any C or C++
- >compiler I've ever seen.
-
- Turbo Pascal is even faster than, or at least the same speed as,
- Turbo Assembler. TP on my old 8MHz 8088 machine is still faster
- than Turbo C on my 386/20. I've also used 6502 assemblers on
- < 2MHz machines which were about the same speed as Turbo Assembler.
- Forgetting about all obvious differences, etc., doesn't it still
- seem that something is wrong?
-
- >Why do people accept such slow compile times? Turbo Pascal demonstrates
- >that fast compiler technology exists. Is C++ five times harder to compile
- >than TP?
-
- Additionally, TP shows how nicely integrated tools can be. There's
- no separate linker, you can compile straight to memory if you want,
- etc. Many integrated development systems are simply shells which
- call various tools--and they feel like it.
-
- --
- James Hague
- exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
-