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so@brownie.cs.wisc.edu (Bryan S. So) writes:

>The brochure says:

>    Borland C++ gives you everything you need to generate
>    Windows programs and Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL's).
>    And with the included Whitewater Resource Toolkit, you
>    can visually create icons, bit maps, dialogs, menus and
>    other essentials for your Windows applications.  Even
>    better, since Borland C++ gives you the MS Windows
>    header file and resource compiler, you don't need the
>    MS SDK.

>I don't really know what a resource compiler is, can somebody
>explain? 

I heard second-hand about a demo of this that was given: since I didn't
see this first-hand, take it with a (big) grain of salt.  The claim was that
the demo showed them building some program in both the MS and Borland
development environments on identical machines: the program took 50
seconds to build in the MS environment, 20 seconds in the Borland one.
Then they changed something and rebuilt it: MS took another 50 seconds,
Borland took 3.  Apparently the difference on the second compile has
something to do with pre-compilation of all the header file info that
hardly ever changes (how often do you edit stdio.h ?) into a file that
is saved and available to the second compile.  I don't know if this is
the "resource compiler" you mentioned, but it might be.
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