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From: rad@genco.uucp (Bob Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Any users of 4D compiler?
Message-ID: <56@genco.uucp>
Date: 5 Oct 90 17:13:34 GMT
References: <2299@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Reply-To: rad@genco. (Bob Daniel)
Organization: Gentry & Assoc. Excelsior Springs, MO
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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?

The speed improvment is simply astronomical!  Even on a Plus, 4D is actually
tolerable.  A loop of 65000 took over 10 minutes to run noncompiled and
took less than 3 seconds compiled!  Get it!  It is worth $700 (US developers
cost)