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From: nuspljj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joseph J. Nuspl Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: EXE file size, C vs. Pascal
Keywords: C, Pascal, MsDos
Message-ID: <16398@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 90 01:50:14 GMT
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Organization: Purdue University
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Over the past year, I have written several Unix-like commands -- cat, ls, ...
in Turbo Pascal 5.5.  I have recently rewritten them in Turbo C++ hoping
to improve speed and/or reduce file size.  The C compiled programs are
significanly larger.  Cat in Pascal is ~3k, Turbo C ~17, DeSmet C ~10.

I will continue my 'Ms-Dix' project and was wondering which platform, C or
Pascal, that I should continue with.  I am trying to keep the size of the
executables small and have the speed of execution as fast as possible.

BTW - I don't have time to code every thing in Assembler.

Comments?

Thanks.

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