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From: bdenh@caen.engin.umich.edu (Brian J Denheyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: laser c mwc mark williams
Keywords: laser c mwc mark williams compilers
Message-ID: <4400a9e0.b3cf@ginger.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 23 Jun 89 13:23:00 GMT
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Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Well I got my very own version of Laser C 2.0 the other day, and it is amazing.
Most of the files I was experimenting with last night were taking 10-15 sec to compile
and link.  One application I am working on which consists of about 8 files took
about 1 min 30 sec and generated a 38K program. MWC with a ram disk takes about 4 min 30 sec
and created a 50K program.  The shell which you work from is excellent as is the editor
supplied with it.  I like the MWC resource program a little better, but there is certainly
nothing wrong with the Megamax one.  The shell also has a variable size disk cache which
really speeds things up.  Overall I am very impressed and have already deleted all my MW stuff.
It took about 3-4 hrs to get up and running with laser C.  I have had to make very few changes
to the source code.

So if anybody is shopping for a C compiler I've used both Laser C and MWC and would
be happy to give you my opinion.

No I am not connected with Megamax in any way.

Brian Denheyer