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- From: oauld@ponder.csci.unt.edu (orion okotu auld)
- Subject: Re: COMPILING SPEED
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:20:56 GMT
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- In <1992Nov12.201534.17928@prism.poly.edu> ssnyder@prism.poly.edu (Sharon Snyder) writes:
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- >Maybe the person who started comparing TP to C forgot to mention
- >a couple of important facts:
- >1. Pascal is a 1-pass compiler......of course it's faster than MOST/ANY(?)
- > 2-pass compiler (like C)
- >2. Pascal, because it is 1-pass has limitations that C does not have. Any
- > extensions to Pascal to improve the language have had to make "weird"
- > syntax demands.
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- You can compile C in one pass. I don't see where you can assume that Turbo
- C is a two-pass compiler. Further, the Borland Rep said that 90% of athe
- speed difference between the two compilers is due to precompiled headers
- and the advantages of the .TPU format (in eliminating the link step).
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- --Orion
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