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From: jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Microsoft C 6.0 (and YOUR problems...)
Keywords: MSC6, QUICKC, TURBOC, Microsoft, CL, compilers
Message-ID: <766@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 90 16:16:03 GMT
References: <2134@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil>
Reply-To: jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Distribution: usa
Organization: Scientific Atlanta, Government Products Div, San Diego, CA
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In article <2134@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil> nol2321@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil (Jim Dunn) writes:
>
>>The MSC6 owner writes...
>>
>> Yes, the original problem, my biggest compaint about C 6.0 is not the 
>> load time (that is a smaller gripe) but the time (almost 1 minute) 
>> to compile a   """"""" 1 """"""""""" line program !!!!!!!!!
>Besides, HOW OFTEN DO YOU COMPILE 1 LINE PROGRAMS IN ANY TYPE OF
>"REAL" WORK!!!???!!!
>
>Be serious, try a 1000 line program with both and THEN HARP about it!
>:)

This doesn't belong here so followups have been sent to the ibm group.  Anyway,
a few years ago I used the MSC 5.0 compiler and was wondering about the compile
times for my short (10-300 line) files.  After screwing around a while I
decided that until your source file gets to be 400 lines or more you spend
more time reading the compiler off the hard disk and initializing it than you
do compiling your file. 

When you talk about 1000 line programs I certainly hope it is in several files.


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