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In article <4384@public.BTR.COM> thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P.
Floryan) writes: 
>Besides, I've heard from a very reliable source that curses outperforms SMG by
>4 to 1 (tested by alternately running Ultrix and VMS on the same platform).

Back when I was a VMS weenie, I did some simple testing and found that
SMG$ was just a little slower than the same curses program (not using
VAX-C curses, since that was built on top of SMG$), however, it wasn't
anything like a 4 to 1 speed difference if you did anything real and
used SMG to its fullest.  More in the range of 10-15%.  Also, I found
it hard to have the equivalent programs because the approach to
solving the same problem is different.

SMG does lock you into a VMS box, unless some clever sole has written
one for unix, etc.  You'd also have to figure out how to get around
the fact that some 'C' compilers detest '$' in variable/function
names.

Warner
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