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From: francis@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis)
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Subject: Re: Any users of 4D compiler?
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Date: 5 Oct 90 15:48:59 GMT
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In article <1990Oct5.150511.14473@agate.berkeley.edu> bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) writes:
>In article <2299@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> nd@doc.ic.ac.uk (N Dulay) writes:
>>I would interested to learn whether anyone has used ACI's new 4th Dimension
>>Compiler on their existing 4th Dimension databases. And if so, how much
>>improvement they have noticed?

As long as we're talking about the compiler, have they ever gotten the
version 2.0 xref utility done?  As I recall, it was farmed out to
After Hours, but I know that a number of people, some of whom work at
Acius, expressed a concern that without a cross-referencing tool (like
what *came* *with* version 1.0), writing a program for compilation
would become much more difficult, and it was likely that the programs
compiled without reference to the cross reference dump would be much
less efficient.  In particular, large programs rewritten from verison
1.0 might be likely to have numerous "temporary" global variables (I
used to make all variables fair game for being cleared (i.e., removed
from memory) unless they began G_; in particular, v* variables were
wiped out at the end of every menu procedure).
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R David Francis   francis@cis.ohio-state.edu