Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!cs.umu.se!dvljrt From: dvljrt@cs.umu.se (Joakim Rosqvist) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT software size Message-ID: <1991May7.080524.4409@cs.umu.se> Date: 7 May 91 08:05:24 GMT References: <11866@uwm.edu> Sender: news@cs.umu.se (News Administrator) Organization: Dep. of Info.Proc, Umea Univ., Sweden Lines: 25 In article <11866@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes: >From article , by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger): >> >> In article <11798@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes: >> >> >> So I imagine that a 500k program on a 68040 3000 will run as slow as a >> 2mb program on a NeXT? I imagine NOT. >> >> No, it will run at the same speed. Trick question? >> >> -Mike > >okay, maybe this will be a little easier to understand. A 500k >program on your NeXT will be faster than a 2mb program on it, no? So >a 500k program on a 68040 3000 will be faster than a 2mb program on >your NeXT. > >Write a simple "Hello, World" in C, and tell us the size. That will >tell us quite a bit, I think. >-- Oh NO! Don't write an "Hello World"!!, I did once, and I'm still counting the flames! :-) /$DR.HEX$