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From: kearns@garfield.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Comparing Lightspeed to Manx C
Message-ID: <1449@garfield.columbia.edu>
Date: Mon, 14-Apr-86 22:28:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 14 22:28:34 1986
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Summary: portability, console driver

> 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.

Yes, but you have the option of including the console driver in the 
Manx code, as a resource.  This makes it as portable as anything else.  

-steve