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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT/GNU license agreement w.r.t. Objective-C
Message-ID: <1048@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 11 Dec 90 06:11:29 GMT
References: <1990Dec10.130953.12476@engage.enet.dec.com>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1990Dec10.130953.12476@engage.enet.dec.com>
	tenny@z.dec.com (Dave Tenny) writes:
>If the implementation of Obj-c by GNU means GNU support of Obj-c,
>then this would imply that the Gnu Obj-c implementations will ultimately
>end up running everywhere that gcc/g++ do.  Is this true?

The GPL requires NeXT to make their source code available.  I'm
led to believe that the ObjC extensions will find their way into
a future "official" gcc distribution.

>While I'm here asking about languages, here's one for the NeXT Lispers.
>While Allegro CL on the old cubes compares favorably with other Lisps
>on similiar speed platforms, I'm finding it just a bit slow for what
>I'd hoped to use it for.  I can't tell if it's entirely paging (on my  8mb
>system), or also a general throughput bottleneck on the next.

You're trying to run cl on an 8MB machine?  Good grief!  No, it's
not a throughput bottleneck, you're RAM starved and paging like
crazy.  16MB is reasonable for most things--but CL and Mathematica
are PIGS and anyone seriously interested in either of these should
consider a 32MB configuration.  "No kidding"

					-=EPS=-