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From: anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ZorTech C++ for the Mac ???
Message-ID: <1991May24.232608.4077@verity.com>
Date: 24 May 91 23:26:08 GMT
References: <0101000D.ytekob@nan.co.uk>
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In-Reply-To: sw@nan.co.uk (Sak Wathanasin)

In article <0101000D.ytekob@nan.co.uk>, sw@nan (Sak Wathanasin) writes:
>> >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.
>

Indeed - methinks you are comparing apples to oranges...

Besides, compiling one 25K line program does not a test make as far as
my needs are concerned.

anders