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Article #13731Re: Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
From: Richard Siegel
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1986 04:54
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1986 04:54
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[Line-Eater? What Line-Eater? *Chomp* 8-) ] Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. Position: Confused Undergraduate "Off the cuff comparisons of LightspeedC with MPW Pascal suggest that the latter is an order of magnitude slower." I don't think it's fair to compare LightspeedC to MPW Pascal, simply because C and Pascal are vastly different languages when it comes to compilation; C tends to be easier and quicker to compile than Pascal does. A fairer comparison is to compare, say, Lightspeed Pascal with the TML and MPW Pascal compilers. In that context, LSP is about TWO orders of magnitude fast than TML Pascal, which is (according to Messrs. Rosenstein and Goldsmith) roughly the same speed of compilation as MPW. Please correct me if I am incorrect on this score. That's better than an order of magnitude. --Rich Richard M. Siegel Arpanet: rs4u@andrew.cmu.edu (the only way to get to me!) Disclaimer --> Disclaimers are bogus.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!rs4u# From: rs4u#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Richard Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Macintosh Programmer's Workshop Message-ID: <MS.V3.18.rs4u.80021707.lyndora.sun3.81.1@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 23:54:54 EST Article-I.D.: andrew.MS.V3.18.rs4u.80021707.lyndora.sun3.81.1 Posted: Fri Dec 5 23:54:54 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Dec-86 03:49:41 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 30