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In article <1991Jan09.194126.14780@cavebbs.gen.nz> frank@cavebbs.gen.nz (Frank van der Hulst) writes:
>On another note, upgrading to either TC++ or TP 6.0 should not be contemplated
>if you're using a machine less than about a 12MHz 286 with a fast HD. The VROOM
>system used does a lot of swapping to/from a HD.

   On the contrary. I get perfectly adequate performance with TC++ on a
4.77MHz XT with lots of EMS. TC++ has more than 1M of EMS for its own use, 
and I have a 768K disk cache running as well. On the other hand, I'm not sure 
TC++ has ever needed to swap -- I compiled a 75K source file and the memory 
display never got below about 10K free (available conventional RAM about 570K).

   Running on the XT, TC++ on the average _feels_ only slightly slower than 
MSC 6.0 running on my 20MHz 386 machine at work. No benchmarks to back this 
up, however.

   One note: TC++ grabs *all* the free EMS when it starts and releases none
of it, even when you shell out to DOS. This can be annoying. A cursory
examination of the manuals revealed no way to prevent this behavior and I
haven't been annoyed enough so far to waste a lot of time looking.

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