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In article <1991May22.210541.1@vax1.tcd.ie> mtynan@vax1.tcd.ie writes:

   I've heard rumours that the compile-link cycle time is greatly reduced
   when running Borland C++ in protected mode, is this true?

   At the moment, running in real mode, it takes about 12 minutes to compile
   and link and link an 80 line windows .exe on my 16Mhz 286 machine.

   Would the speed benifits of running in protected mode justify buying the
   extra 1MB of RAM I need?

   I'd be grateful for any info anyone can offer!

In a word, YES.  I've got about 300 lines of my own code plus my .h
file, plus windows.h, (so what, about 4000 lines of code) and I can
build the program in about 1 minute.  I use bcx, a 12mhz 286, and 2.5
meg of memory and a slow (65ms) hard disk..  When it compiles/links it
seems to leave about 1 meg free, so you could get away with a little
less memory.  In my opinion, the best purchase I ever made was $100
for 2 meg of memory.

Just for comparision, when I first got bc++ I was using a 8mhz 8086
and it took over an hour for the compile to fail for lack of memory on
the todo example in \borlandc\examples.  It took maybe a minute or a
minute and a half for the newer system to compile and link it
sucessfully.

for what it's worth.
bruce
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Bruce O'Neel              oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov
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