LSI@UMass.BITNET (Peter Lawall, Logical Solutions, (413) 256-6800) (01/12/87)
Here are two more code sizes for the "empty program": main() {} Old Version of Alcyon C on CP/M68K: 9856 bytes! LightSpeed C on the Macintosh : 1544 bytes Compile, link, and save application times are: Alcyon C (ramdisk) : 21 seconds LightSpeed C (Hard disk) : 6 seconds The large code size and long compile/link times for Alcyon sure seem to indicate pretty inefficient compiler code! But anyone who has used it already knows that -- it seems to do all compiling, linking, etc one sector at a time rather than buffering files in memory and reading/writing them in one fell swoop... Like the CP/M68K "ED" editor that supports a fixed edit buffer of a whopping 22K regardless of how many megs of memory your computer has... Digital Research & Alcyon, a marriage made in ................ I am in no way connected with DRI or Alcyon (fortunately!)