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From: dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Nits about the development environment
Message-ID: <851@atari.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 14:50:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: atari.851
Posted: Fri Sep 25 14:50:05 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 07:25:41 EDT
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Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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> 3. COMPILERS and LINKERS: Atari's new linker was a godsend. It takes
> links with vdi & gem down from 2 min to 18 seconds (both with Supra
> and much ramdisk). Bravo.  And filenames can have backslashes in them
> too -- quality work!  Now, if the assembler in the latest version of
> Alcyon (4.14) would only do what earlier versions could, namely put
> temporary files on ramdisk. When I upgraded to 4.14 (I need its
> improvements in structure support) the time to assemble trippled,
> presumably due to the loss of ramdisk for temporaries.

If you are a registered developer, you can get a beta copy of
MADMAC, a high-performance assembler written here at Atari (by
people who were pissed-off at AS68).  Briefly:

	o  20,000 to 40,000 lines a minute (on a hard disk or ramdisk);
	o  Macros, include files, repeat blocks, etc...
	o  Will act as a back-end to the Alcyon C compiler;
	o  Can generate Mark Williams object code modules (so MWC people
	   don't have to use the icky MW assembler);
	o  Will generate ".PRG" files directly;

It's on Compuserve, in the developer's SIG.  If you're not on
Compuserve, you can ask John Feagans to send you a copy via snail
mail.

-- 
-Landon Dyer, Atari Corporation        {sun,amdcad,imagen,hoptoad}!atari!dyer
The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those
of Atari or the AI software that has taken over my brain.
YOW! I am waiting for my warranty-expired interrupt!