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- From: jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant)
- Subject: Re: MFC and Borland IDE
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.211933.14321@emr1.emr.ca>
- Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
- References: <61589@aurs01.UUCP> <1992Dec16.194955.19597@kth.se> <1992Dec18.035645.3257@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:19:33 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1992Dec18.035645.3257@microsoft.com> stevesi@microsoft.com (Steven Sinofsky) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec16.194955.19597@kth.se> d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon Waette) writes:
- >>In <61589@aurs01.UUCP> lynch@aurs01.uucp (David Lynch) writes:
- >>
- [...stuff about OWL vs MFC deleted...]
- >
- >The October issue of Dr. Dobbs has a review of several application
- >frameworks for Windows, most notable OWL and Microsoft's MFC.
- >
- >The task was for each vendor to write a program based on a third
- >party specification. In this case we were asked to write a hand-
- >writing browser. This was a non-trivial application (imho).
- >
- >The end result was (quoting the stats from the magazine):
- >
- > OWL MFC
- >Lines of Code 3398 934
- >EXE size(bytes) 56,848 46,536
- >
- >The OWL executable also requires 3 DLLs totalling 312,640 bytes. MFC
- >is a stand-alone EXE.
-
- Did anyone write it using plain C and the Windows API? It
- would be nice to have those numbers for comparison also.
- --
- John A. Grant jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
- Airborne Geophysics
- Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa
-