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From: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: WindowIt! and CompileIt!
Message-ID: <57391@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 90 15:12:22 GMT
References: <90254.173048KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Reply-To: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <90254.173048KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:
>There was a recent letter in MacWorld complementing the new version of
>CompileIt! 1.5.
>
>Is anybody using it? Is it useful? How much more so that C or Pascal?

What I'd like to know is whether 1.5 is faster than 1.0 (1.1?).

My buddy bought it, used it to speed up a few time critical functions,
but rarely drags it out 'cause it is S-----L----O----W.  Typical speed
is less than 1 line per minute on a Mac II (68020) machine.  I didn't
even want to think about what the rate would have been on my old
Mac Plus.  It would also reject some valid HyperTalk, and debugging
was painful with 20 minute turnaround on 20 line functions.

>Kevin Purcell             | kpurcell@liverpool.ac.uk
>Surface Science Centre    |
>Liverpool University      | Omit needless words.

James Thiele -- microsoft!jamesth