Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!glacier!Shasta!gus From: gus@Shasta.ARPA (Gus Fernandez) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Comparing Lightspeed to Manx C Message-ID: <236@Shasta.ARPA> Date: Fri, 11-Apr-86 00:01:44 EST Article-I.D.: Shasta.236 Posted: Fri Apr 11 00:01:44 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Apr-86 22:42:00 EST Distribution: net Organization: Stanford University Lines: 5 It should be noted that the reason that Lightspeed C files have a larger runtime library than Manx is often because Manx puts much of its stdio support into their console driver which gets installed into the system while lightspeed links it into the application. This makes non-macish applications truly portable (in more ways than one!) at the expense of library size.