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Article #34648Re: Lightspeed Pascal 2.0 Ships!
From: Rich Siegel
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1988 14:28
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1988 14:28
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In article <24515@sri-unix.SRI.COM> larson@unix.sri.com (Alan Larson) writes: > >Does the new Lightspeed Pascal 2.0 still have the problem with dealing >with the most negative integer as a data value? What "problem" is that? >Does it have real packing of data when it is byte size No, but a future 2.x update probably will. >Does it add an 'unsigned' data type modifier No. >Most important of all, how much of a Mac does it take to run it? The minimum configuration is one MB, two 800K floppy drives. >How much slower is it than 1.11? Why does it have to be slower? As it happens, the editor is faster, the code generated is considerably faster (sorry, no quantitative measurement, but I think the Sieve is about twice is fast), and the compiler, which does two passes now instead of one pass, is about 10% faster. --Rich Rich Siegel Staff Software Developer THINK Technologies Division, Symantec Corp. Internet: singer@endor.harvard.edu UUCP: ..harvard!endor!singer Phone: (617) 275-4800 x305 Any opinions stated in this article do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of Symantec Corporation or its employees.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!endor!siegel From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Lightspeed Pascal 2.0 Ships! Message-ID: <622@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 21 Nov 88 14:28:49 GMT References: <594@husc6.harvard.edu> <24515@sri-unix.SRI.COM> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) Organization: Symantec/THINK Technologies, Bedford, MA Lines: 38