boerned@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Dan Boerner) (08/31/90)
I'm using THINK Pascal and MacApp and loving it. However (there always seems to be a however :-) most of the time spent compiling is spent recompiling unchanged USES. This is especially true if your debugging a method at the end of a large unit. 75% of the compile time is spent loading the other Units, then it compiles the code, then it finds your single char typo and you have to repeat the entire process. The more you split your classes up into different units the worse this gets. Now for the suggestion: In THINK C, you can opt for precompiled headers. Would it be possible to do the same for Uses in THINK Pascal. This seems so obvious that there must be a fairly large technical hurdle here somewhere. If they could get it working the compile time would be greatly improved. I have heard about something for MPW that does this for MacApp headers. Any comments Rich? -------------------------- Dan Boerner PhD Student Oregon State University