Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!uwmcsd1!marque!ddsw1!gryphon!jdow From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Request for Compiler Info Message-ID: <2023@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 15:46:34 EST Article-I.D.: gryphon.2023 Posted: Fri Oct 23 15:46:34 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Oct-87 00:37:33 EST References: <4443@zen.berkeley.edu> <31235@sun.uucp> <5540@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow) Organization: Wizardess Designs Lines: 42 Summary: Fill in a couple blanks... Rather than quote the entire article (*L*O*N*G*) I'll just fill in a couple blanks re Lattice with a couple Manx observations. (Both are nice packages. Both have tremendous support on bix if you can afford it. John Toebes and John Meissen of Lattice are no more nor less hard working than Jim Goodnow of Manx.) Lattice compilers since 3.10 have included lmk, their make utility, in the high end version. This package also includes some other goodies noteworthy among them Metascope debugger. At the Lattice 4.0 vs Manx 3.4b (which I do not have) level you'll find different mixes of terrific features for gaining speed. Lattice will support something called #pragma LibCall. This ends up placing the library calls into the executable as direct library calls rather than having them go through any intermediary library functions. This can give you a noticable speed improvement. On the other tentacle Manx 3.4b has inline support for the 68020/68881 available. This is very nice for programs that do a LOT of high accuracy floating point math. (I tried to talk John and John into it over on bix; but, that was not on the 4.0 adgenda. perhaps next rev. These guys - all three of 'em - certainly don't quit! I, sitting at the consumer level, *L*O*V*E* this level of competition. We have two nice compilers available and they keep getting nicer.) Regarding the manuals I find Lattice's much more readable than the Manx manuals. (That and I get bothered by the "set" stuff I have to do with Manx. Too many other things use something called "set" and I keep wondering "Gee, which of these wonderful "set's" that I have is the right one? ) Anyway - I spend lots more time trying to figure out where what I need hides in the Manx manual and addenda than I do in the Lattice Manual. (Kudos to the Lattice Manual writer!) Long enuf - bye! -- <@_@> BIX:jdow INTERNET:jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP:{akgua, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!jdow Remember - A bird in the hand often leaves a sticky deposit. Perhaps it was better you left it in the bush with the other one.