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From: sw@nan.co.uk (Sak Wathanasin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ZorTech C++ for the Mac ???
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Date: 24 May 91 19:57:09 GMT
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In article <1991May23.205933.13024@verity.com>, anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren) writes:
> >1. How much does it cost and what does the package include?
> 
> I think it was around $300

Good grief! I paid 250 pds sterling, which is roughly $430. Now, we're pretty
used to being ripped off by UK distributors of US software, but when the
parent company is in the UK,...

> >2. What's it like (a comparision to Think C would be useful)?
> 
> It seems relatively fast, although I had some problems (read my other
> message in this group).

Come, come. As you said, it's about the same speed as Apple's CFront/C with
load/save. Think C is much faster: on my fx, Think C compiled, linked and
launched the "Art Class" demo program (starting from an empty project) in just
over 5 mins - nearly 24K lines including headers. Since the hdr files were
included several times, TC came up with a line count of about 75K or about 15K
lines/min.

It took about 3.5 mins for ZTC to build a 2K line MacApp program. The linker,
rez etc took nearly 1 min to rebuild the appl from existing .o files, so ZTC
took 2.5 mins to compile the 2K lines. The MacApp hdrs total about 10K lines.
There were only 2 .cp files, so even if all the MacApp hdr files were pulled
in, ZTC would have "seen" 22K lines at most; add some for system hdrs, and
we'll call it 25K lines. That's about 10K lines/min *at best*, and I think I'm
erring in ZTC's favour.

Of course, ZTC is a full C++ compiler, and Think C is not.

Sak Wathanasin
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