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Article #1726Re: MFC and Borland IDE
From: John Grant
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:19
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:19
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In article <1992Dec18.035645.3257@microsoft.com> stevesi@microsoft.com (Steven Sinofsky) writes: >In article <1992Dec16.194955.19597@kth.se> d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon Waette) writes: >>In <61589@aurs01.UUCP> lynch@aurs01.uucp (David Lynch) writes: >> [...stuff about OWL vs MFC deleted...] > >The October issue of Dr. Dobbs has a review of several application >frameworks for Windows, most notable OWL and Microsoft's MFC. > >The task was for each vendor to write a program based on a third >party specification. In this case we were asked to write a hand- >writing browser. This was a non-trivial application (imho). > >The end result was (quoting the stats from the magazine): > > OWL MFC >Lines of Code 3398 934 >EXE size(bytes) 56,848 46,536 > >The OWL executable also requires 3 DLLs totalling 312,640 bytes. MFC >is a stand-alone EXE. Did anyone write it using plain C and the Windows API? It would be nice to have those numbers for comparison also. -- John A. Grant jagrant@emr1.emr.ca Airborne Geophysics Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!nott!emr1!jagrant From: jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) Subject: Re: MFC and Borland IDE Message-ID: <1992Dec21.211933.14321@emr1.emr.ca> Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa References: <61589@aurs01.UUCP> <1992Dec16.194955.19597@kth.se> <1992Dec18.035645.3257@microsoft.com> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:19:33 GMT Lines: 28