bdenh@caen.engin.umich.edu (Brian J Denheyer) (06/06/89)
I'm taking a poll which may be of interest to users of Mark Williams C. I have MWC but I am amazed at the compile times of Laser C. Is there anybody out there who has used both and has any comments about whether I should stick with MWC and hope for speed improveming upgrades or invest some hard earned money in Laser C ??!! (I currently have MWC 3.0.6 and CSD) The criteria is not only speed but the general programming envrionment of each package. Please let me know what you think. Brian Denheyer
andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) (06/08/89)
| I'm taking a poll which may be of interest to users of Mark Williams C. | I have MWC but I am amazed at the compile times of Laser C. Is there anybody | out there who has used both and has any comments about whether I should | stick with MWC and hope for speed improveming upgrades or invest some hard earned money | in Laser C ??!! (I currently have MWC 3.0.6 and CSD) | | The criteria is not only speed but the general programming envrionment of each package. | | Please let me know what you think. | | Brian Denheyer | ---------- Don't forget to look at the size of the compiled code! Last comparison I saw, MWC has it all over Laser C in this arena. Small code size costs compilation time, in general. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Andy Cassino % % uucp: hplabs!hplsla!andyc domain: andyc%hplsla@hplabs.hp.com % % Hewlett-Packard Lake Stevens Instrument Division % % 8600 Soper Hill Road Everett, WA 98205-1298 % % (206) 335-2211 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
bdenh@caen.engin.umich.edu (Brian J Denheyer) (06/12/89)
Well, I thought I'd send out some preliminary thoughts on the Laser C vs. MWC thing. So far the opinion tends to be that the programming environment for Laser C is tremendous. Apparently the compile edit cycle is very well integreated. Also the speed of the compiler is of course a big plus. A comment was made that the portability of MWC code to a UNIX environment is better (?). It'd be nice if someone could provide more details on this topic. It seems that as long as you stay away from ST specific features that the portability of the source should be the same for both compilers. So as of right now Laser C is getting the more favorable reviews. Keep the opinions coming ! Brian Denheyer