stergios@athsys.uucp (Stergios Marinopoulos) (11/01/88)
In article <32@ssibbs.UUCP> jcrotinger@ssibbs.UUCP (James Crotinger) writes: > BTW, Tim Holloway mentioned on BIX that he wants to make the next > release a real compiler, as opposed to a translator. That would definitely > help. Currently it takes about 2 minutes to compile and link Hello.cp > on my 3 Meg A1000 w/hard drive. Welcome to cfront on the amiga (at&t's c++ translator). Although compile time will not be your biggest problem, this poor performance is one of the significant draw backs that will keep me away from it. The other problem with cfront 1.2 (at&t numbers mind you) is the inability to declare the virtual table pointers extern and have them defined just once rather than static and in every module. Without this ability you will be generating 200k (or larger) programs faster than you believed possible! If you dont think these are *real* serious problems, drop me a line and I'll tell you about 7 different programs we have that are all over 5 megs stripped! stergios