lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) (11/10/86)
In article <1144@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> rs4u#@andrew.cmu.edu.UUCP (Rich Seigel) writes: > >I understand that Object Pascal can really slow down a compiler. A friend >uses MPW (the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, from Apple) at work, and he >says that the regular Pascal compiles about as fast as TML, but the Object >Pascal code compiles much more slowly... > There is no difference in compilation speed for regular Pascal constructs and Object Pascal constructs. There is nothing inherent in Object Pascal that makes it slow to compile. There are 2 possible reasons for thinking that Object Pascal is slow to compile. (1) The person was using it with MacApp, which has a large interface section. Much of the compiler's tiem is spent parsing interfaces. (2) The person was using the beta release of MPW which did not support the $LOAD feature for Object Pascal. $LOAD allows you to save symbol tables in a binary format that are fast to load into the compiler. This has been fixed in MPW 1.0. Using the latest compiler, the turnaround time for a small change to a MacApp progam is 2-3 minutes. This is much slower than LSP, but much faster than using the beta MPW compiler w/o $LOAD. -- Larry Rosenstein Object Specialist Apple Computer AppleLink: Rosenstein1 UUCP: {sun, voder, nsc, mtxinu, dual}!apple!lsr CSNET: lsr@Apple.CSNET
josh%ILJCT.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.EDU (04/01/87)
Hi Folks, I've got this slight problem with Turbo Pascal running on the PC-AT. I'm using Database Toolbox and I've got this weird bug. Sometimes when I change the contents of my program, but make no changes in the data files, index files, or toolbox affiliated variables, my program bombs and throws me out to DOS when I do different operations on the file (open, add, delete, close). I use a couple of machine language external subroutines, which work perfectly, but I'm almost positive that I don't stray into any illegal neighborhoods in memory. When I erase my data and index files and start over, everything works fine. Any suggestions? Also, is there any way to open the serial port on the PC with Turbo Pascal? Thanks. Josh Males (JOSH@ILJCT.BITNET)
steep-mo-m@HUACHUCA-EM.arpa (John Shaver Modernization Office) (11/24/87)
Is the person who wanted some sample programs to test his Pascal Compiler still looking for some. I have some programs, but I cannot seem to get mail to him directly. John
I2010506%DBSTU1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (07/25/89)
Date: 25 July 1989, 10:38:51 MEZ From: Christian Boettger +49 (0)531 3915113 / I2010506 at DBSTU1 To: info-pascal at vim.brl Hi, we are "upgrading" from DOS 3.30 tp OS/2 for several reasons. Some of our PC's will remain under DOS. Up to now we used TurboPascal 4.0 as our preferred programming language. As far as we are informed, there is no version of TP running under OS/2. We do have lots of source code for TP4 and we are not very keen on re-writing all of it. Some rumours say that QuickPascal 1.0 (Microsoft) is able to compile code that is written for TP. Does anyone know whether this is true or not??? And if it is, what happens to programs that USE the standard unit DOS, CRT and GRAPH under TP4?? We do need some graphics (UNIT GRAPH would do it, something like the Graphix Toolbox would be preferred). Is is true that QP1 runs under OS/2, or is it just a bad joke?? Every hint will be helpful... Thanks, Chris ________________________________________________________________________________ Christian Boettger phone: (+49) (0)531/391-5113 mail: Institut fuer Metallphysik und Nukleare Festkoerperphysik, (room -167/-168), Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstrasse 3, D-3300 Braunschweig, Bundesrepublik Deutschland FRG / RFA ________________________________________________________________________________ EARN: I2010506@DBSTU1.BITNET InterNet: boettger@julian.uwo.CA UseNet: boettger@julian.UUCP UUCP / UseNet: (whereever)!uunet!watmath!julian!boettger (whereever)!uunet!boettger@hydra.uwo.CA (whereever)!uunet!mcvax!unido!i2010506@DBSTU1.BITNET ********************************************************************************
amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt) (12/02/89)
Can anyone recommend a good Pascal compiler for SCO UNIX System V/386 release 3.2? I do not insist on only ISO standard Pascal; I would be especially happy to have Turbo Pascal (>=5.0) but VMS-style (ISO Level 1) would be nice. A decent Modula-2 would be OK, and I wouldn't turn my nose up at a reasonable ALGOL. Thanks in advance, Andrew Mullhaupt