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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: THINK C 4.0 Press Release
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Date: 25 Jul 89 02:53:15 GMT
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In article <9870@fluke.COM> mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney) writes:
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>Are the "class library user interface components" MacApp, a MacApp-clone, or
>something completely different?  If something new, is it a complete application
	It's something completely different; the TCL supports documents
and files as well as all the usual user-interface niceties. And there's
a class for tearoff menus...

>
>The *assembler* has an optimizer?  :-)
	
	Yup. Branches are optimized to short branches wherever possible,
and branches to a "goto", "break", or "return" are optimized to branch
to the destination of the statement. Some others too, but most branch
and label optimizations.

>Does the compiler produce '881 code, or does it still generate library calls?

	The compiler now generates inline opcodes.

		--Rich



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