keith@ssc-vax.UUCP (Keith Nemitz) (07/22/86)
There have been comments on the net about the apparent slowness of
Object Pascal for MPW. I have to disagree. The speed of compiling is
quite comparable to TMP Pascal. What makes the compiler see slow is its
look up for all the USES files. This chore can be almost eliminated by
using the {$LOAD} compiler instruction to build a symbol file of the USES
files. Just by building a symbol file for the MemTypes, QuickDraw, OSTypes,
ToolBox, and PackIntf USES files I was able to reduce my 1 minute+ compile
times down to 10 seconds! When I built a symbol file for the MacApp USES
files I would get linker errors, and I believe this is due to a problem with
compiler variables and the symbol file. I am not sure if I should report this
as a bug or what. Hope the information can help you lucky MPW beta testers.
Keith Nemitz
A9F4