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#Lattice C
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Well, I finally got my copy of LAttice C. For the interest of the rest of the
folks here (at least those not too tied up with the Political Science
subsection), Lattice lets you compile & link a "Hello World" program in 2
minutes 17 secs. The same program, using BDS C on a 2.5MHz Kaypro, will compile
& link in 21 secs. This is progress? Let's hear it for Turbo Amiga C.
In all fairness to Lattice, I must admit that the compiler is _MUCH_ faster
than the linker, which is Metacompo's. The linker accounts for nearly two
minutes of that 2:17. The BDS C linker takes about 8 seconds, and it doesn't
require a two-line list of library files.
Then, on the other hand, while I'm typing this (on the Kaypro), I'm sitting
here watching the Amiga draw out the Mandelbrot set. I guess it's good for
_SOMETHING_ … the Kaypro surely won't do that!
Aztec C and the Aztec linker are quite fast …. hello world should take less
than a minute … and for LARGE programs .. Aztec allows you to compile header
files into a binary image … put it on RAM: and watch the compile times. BDS C
is an excellent compiler … but it isn't K&R compatable so it doesn't have
quite as much work to do (like floats for example).
Aztec C and the Aztec linker are quite fast …. hello world should take less
than a minute … and for LARGE programs .. Aztec allows you to compile header
files into a binary image … put it on RAM: and watch the compile times. BDS C
is an excellent compiler … but it isn't K&R compatable so it doesn't have
quite as much work to do (like floats for example).