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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Re: Lightspeed C, desk accessories, and BUGS
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Date: Wed, 28-May-86 12:40:40 EDT
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> LightSpeed C produces buggy desk accessories, and the example desk
> accesory is dangerous!  Lightspeed C is one of those Cs that inserts glue
> routines to access global variables of desk accessories...

> ...5) The whole library gets included with every program, so a desk
> accessory that should be about 900 bytes long takes up 4k.

???

What library is that?  I converted my ZoomIdle DA from Rascal to
Lightspeed as an exercise.  Lightspeed generates 890 bytes of code from
my source, which is virtually the same as the amount of code generated
by Rascal.  The finished Lightspeed DA takes up 2600 bytes - not as
good as Rascal (1800 bytes) - but not 4K, either.

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