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We've had MPW here at work for a while, and this morning, I said
what the hell, let's try it.

"Trying it" consisted of installing MPW on my hard drive, copying the
sources for FzzPlot into a folder under MPW's domain,, and rebuilding
FzzPlot from scratch. 

The results? Four hours later, I said "Never again."

The final product produced with MPW Pascal was about 8K smaller than
the application produced by Lightspeed Pascal. However, the two
applications completed a task (loading a 512-point text file and plotting
its data) in the same amount of time, to within a tenth of a second.

I would assume that the smaller application size is because MPW strips
code on a procedural basis, while Lightspeed Pascal strips code
on a library-by-library basis.

In any case, I found that the hassle of setting up a makefile, coupled
with the long compile and link times, do not make it worth the
smaller code size and extra tools (such as PasRef and PasMat) that MPW
provides, nice though they be.

I'm sticking with Lightspeed Pascal. I see nothing to justify the
two megabytes that MPW occupies on my hard drive.

Any comments? Please mail directly to me, and I'll summarize for the net.

		--Rich

Richard M. Siegel
R-Squared Development Systems
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