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From: cs161agc@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (John Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: M2Sprint (was Re: TDI Modula-2/Amiga)
Keywords: "bug city" new system
Message-ID: <55@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 14 Jan 89 21:49:31 GMT
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Reply-To: cs161agc@sdcc10.ucsd.edu.UUCP (John Schultz)
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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In article <7063@pyr.gatech.EDU> dsking@pyr.UUCP ( David King) writes:
[Kinison Code Removed]
>	Actually, as far as I can tell from talking with the designers on 
>BIX and examining the demo disk, it is an upgrade for two reasons: 1) they
>are offering it cheap to old TDI owners, and 2) they are probably using
>TDI's AmigaDOS distribution liscense.  The editor, compiler, and linker are
>all totally rewriten, Amiga-fied, and bug free (I have not found a way to
>crash the demo which is unusual for me).  If you got a demo disk with the
>upgrade atleast take a look at it - it really is a new product.  If not,

  Hey, I looked at the demo disk.  I can't help from laughing as I
type this, but I got it to hang the first time I booted it up on an
Amiga 2000.  I got tired of looking at the cyclic ray-trace demo,
and started pressing keys.  Then I waited. And waited. And waited.  Ad
infinitonauseam.
  The second time I ran it, I just waited, and after a while, I got
to the demo of the compiler.  The editor/compiler/linker doesn't
seem as well intergated as Benchmark, it doesn't seem any faster; I 
wasn't impressed.  I've been using Benchmark for about a year, a
Beta version I might add (I'll recieve the upgrade "Jan 20" or so), I
haven't encountered a single bug. I've talked to the Author, Leon
Frenkel; all of my questions were answered impeccably. 
  M2S will perform direct library calls and alledgely does dead code
elimination.  So, it may be that at this time it is marginally
better than Benchmark in code generation, but I'm not impressed
enough to switch over, giving their previous track record.  And if
the authors are still in Europe, it'll have to be _really_
impressive to buy it.
 Currently if you want a stable, fast environment, Benchmark has the
best track record.  If you want the best code generation, Lattice
5.0 seems to win here, but I'm sure Manx will counter.
If you want the ultimate speed, pick you're favorite assembler and
go.



  John Schultz