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From: christer@cs.umu.se (Christer Ericson)
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Subject: Re: Performance of TP on the MAC
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Date: 28 Apr 91 12:21:25 GMT
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In article <14533@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> mglacy@lamar.ColoState.EDU () writes:
>I just had my first experience converting a TP 4.0 application from an
>IBM version to a MAC (TP 1.1) version.  To my surprise, the MAC version
>appears to be substantially slower.  The program involves no graphics, a lot
>of floating point arithmetic, a sort of a large array, and a large
>number of calls to Random (actually RandomX on the MAC).  The MAC 
>I've used (SE) appears to take something like 3 times as long as
>my IBM XT to run the program.  Is this peculiar?  Anybody with
>similar experiences?

You shouldn't use TP on the Mac. It hasn't been updated since 1986(87?), nor is
Borland supporting it in any way. Use THINK Pascal (or MPW Pascal) instead.
TP didn't generate any good code either, it's main advantage over its
competitors was the fast linkage (but it didn't remove unused code though).

>Mike Lacy


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