rob@hhb.UUCP (Robert R Stegmann) (05/05/88)
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Here is another article I translated from the May 88 issue of the German
computer magazine c't. I thought it would be of interest to all of you
talking about Borland products.
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'Turbo': in the PC world a by-word for a fast, efficient compiler - a
foreign word to Atari users.
That shall soon change: for 283 DM Heimsoeth & Borland will finally offer
Turbo-C for the ST, complete with assembler and symbolic debugger.
The adaptation to the Atari was done by a Munich-based firm; Heimsoeth
would not yield any information about Turbo-Pascal or Turbo-BASIC.
Turbo-C presents a fully GEM-oriented development environment.
The compile-link time on a hard-disk for a hundred-line program was under
ten seconds.
The compiler produces object files in DRI format.
In the demonstrated beta version, the production of 68020, 68030, or 68881
code was available as an option.
The ANSI runtime library is written entirely in assembly and permits a
practicable program with a length of less than three kilobytes to be
produced.
Libraries for all BIOS, XBIOS, GEM, DOS, VDI, and AES functions permit
programs which use the full power of the ST to be created.
Heimsoeth estimates programs can achieve 1470 dhrystones.
Using several HL-benchmarks, we obtained results agreeing almost exactly
with those the DRI compiler gave.
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rob
Robert Stegmann
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