plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (Scott Plunkett) (03/08/84)
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I have read startling things re Turbo Pascal from Borland Int'l:
o 4000 lines/minute compilation
o Reasonably ISO conformant
o Takes up 28K (compiler, editor, the lot)
OK, now what's the trade-off here? 28K (bytes?) seems incredible.
A good syntax-scanner for Pascal would take up more than that,
never mind a Wordstar style editor, code-generator, and the
rest lumped in as well. (It must be overlayed, but no one has
mentioned this so far.)
What is produced? A CMD file? A REL file? What of linking in
separately developed routines? Relocatable libraries? Does
the edit-buffer page to disk? What is the executable size
of the following program?
program tiny;
begin
end.
I'm hunting for a good reason *not* to buy Turbo. Or has
Compiler Utopia arrived?
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