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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh C comparisons?
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Date: Fri, 18-Apr-86 23:55:04 EST
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In article <3517@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>
>I use Mac C (currently 4.0, but I've owned it since 1.0). It works fine
>on a pair of floppies (NOT recommended for a single 400K machine, although
>I can't think of ANY serious development system that would try that). Speed

Before I got a Hyperdrive, I used Megamax C on a 512k Mac with no 
external drive.  A ramdisk can take the place of an external 
drive.  It takes some experimenting to find the best 
configuration ( "Let's see, should I put the system/finder in 
RAM, or the linker and the library.  Wait, maybe I should put the 
include files there..." ).  

The main problem with this is that if your program bombs, you lose the
ramdisk.  I suppose if you are developing an application that needs
512k, testing it might be a hassle.

Some suggestions for people looking for C compilers:

	1.  The "big-names" in Mac C compilers are Consulair, Manx, and
	Megamax.  These have all proven themselves to be good systems.
	You can't go wrong with any of these.  As Chuq mentioned,
	Consulair supports HFS.  Megamax now _almost_ does ( they
	are having problems with one of their utilities ).  I don't
	know about Manx, but I would be very surprised if they are
	not close to the others.

	2.  There has been a lot of fuss about LightspeedC.  It is new
	so there are still some bugs.  However, look at the benchmarks
	it gets!  Wow!

	3.  MacTutor has a lot of articles for C programmers.  Each issue
	usually has source code for one or two of the above compilers.
	It might help to read these.  Then again, it might not :-)

	4.  Use the telephone.  Decide what features you want, and then
	call the companies and ask about them.

	5.  Interesting fact #1:  Most people who admit to owning Softworks
	also have another compiler, bought _after_ they bought Softworks.

	6.  Interesting fact #2:  No poufters!

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