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- From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
- Subject: Re: Pascal+ vs TP and OBJs
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- References: <1992Dec24.044413.28756@uwasa.fi>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 14:18:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.044413.28756@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
- >I have two questions about Stony Brook's Pascal+ (Duncan?).
- >
- >1) Does in make tighter and faster code than Turbo Pascal version
- >7.0?
- >
- >2) Will it produce code that can be linked to any Turbo Pascal
- >version. That is could I replace my TPU collection with OBJs?
-
- I haven't got it, so I don't know the answer to 1. I'd suspect yes, since
- TP 7 doesn't do all that much more optimization than TP 6 did. However, on
- an old application that you've already manually optimized, don't expect much
- improvement - reports I've seen suggest 10-15 % maximum.
-
- I don't know the answer to 2 either, but I'd very strongly suspect that the
- answer is no. External .OBJ files can't make calls to the System unit; that
- probably means that it's impractical to link anything substantial that way.
-
- Duncan Murdoch
- dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
-