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Article #3376Re: COMPILING SPEED
From: James Hague
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 19:56
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 19:56
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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
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Subject: Re: COMPILING SPEED
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