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From: robert@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Robert de Vries)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Turbo C (was Re: Problems with LASER C 2.1)
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Date: 16 Oct 89 09:37:52 GMT
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In article <1588@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca "Depeche Modem" writes:
>grrr. how frustrating. I can't wait to get PC-Speed so I can run f*cking
>Turbo C. I sent a letter to Megamax. I will tell you how long they take to
>reply to it...
It's really funny, because Turbo C for the ST already exists for almost a
year now. It is available from Heimsoeth in Germany who have an agreement
with the Turbo company in the USA. They use the parser from the PC version
and made their own code generator.
At this moment version 1.1 is released with support for the f68881 floating
point coprocessor. In december they release a sourcecode level debugger.
I have heard that these products are not sold in the USA, it is time
this will change, because it produces the fastest code of all ST C-compilers.
I have used a lot of them (Mark Williams, Lattice, Laser, GNU CC) and they
all compile slower and they produce slower code and larger code.
I use it all the time, and being developer of the image processing package
AIM, I know how nice a package it really is.
I have no connections with Heimsoeth in any way. I'm only very enthousiastic
about their product. It is also very cheap. In Germany it sells for 225 DM,
which will be roughly $ 100,-. This is the smallest version, without an
extra assembler. With assembler (the developers version) it costs 340 DM
($ 160)

I hope this gives a little more attention to this compiler, which deserves it
completely.

      Robert.