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From: mnrausch@informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Martin Rausche (AKBP WS 1990))
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Zortech 2.0 vs Turbo C++ professional (TC++ bug ??????)
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.130033.15755@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 23 Jan 91 13:00:33 GMT
References: <688@tronsbox.xei.com> <234@nazgul.UUCP> <1991Jan21.233029.29058@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <26419@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: University of Erlangen, Germany
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jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:



>One note that I would like to make about the Turbo C++ TC compiler is that it
>bogs down on my source code every 3500 lines or so.  And it is NOT due to 
>a disk hit.  I have a 386-33 with 8MB of memory.  4MB are allocated as a disk
>cache using Norton Cache (NCACHE-F EXT=4096) adn 2MB are left as extended
>memory for TC itself.  I have some stuff loaded in high memory, and this leaves
>me 583K free base memory, 2MB EXT, and 4MB of disk cache.  However, as I was
>saying, on many of my project files the compiler will fly along at Mach 10
>and then it will just hit the brakes.  I believe that this is a deficiency in
>the compiler, since the cache is large enough to hold ALL my .LIB files, .H
>files, and source files.

>And this occurs after I've been doing some compiling, so I know everything is
>in the cache.  Also, when I compile, I watch  my hard drive light.  It
>doesn't even flicker.  Not once.  And the compiler still bogs down.

I tried to compile fractint ver.14 with TC++. In the file fractals.c the
compiler stops after about 3500 lines. What's wrong here ?????
Thanks in advance for any advice. Martin.

>Brian
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