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From: alfred@dutesta.UUCP (Herman Adriani & Alfred Kayser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Turbo C
Keywords: Calamus, Turbo C
Message-ID: <1243@dutesta.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 89 08:41:16 GMT
References: <834@sdcc15.ucsd.edu> <537@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Reply-To: alfred@dutesta.UUCP (Herman Adriani & Alfred Kayser)
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dep. of Electrotechnical engineering.
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In article <537@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
|Yep, Turbo C really exists. In Germany. With German documentation. Since
|I can't read German, I've made no great pains to investigate further...
|It would be nice if Borland would release it here in the US. Apparently
|it's the fastest compiler yet, and produces the fastest code, by a pretty
|good margin, from the numbers I've seen. And having worked with Turbo C and
|Pascal on PCs, I'm pretty willing to believe 'em...

A friend of me owns Turbo C. We tested it a bit (just a bit) against MWC, which
I own. I saw that Turbo C was just a little bit faster, not too fast for me
selling MWC!!!. And if you want to do floating point, well don't use Turbo C
it is 2 times SLOWER than MWC.

compile times:
    I use a 1040 ST + SH204 + turbodos (yes I use it without any problems).
    both have nearly the same compile+link time.

We encountered some other problems with compiling some excisting code. Turbo C
doesn't always generate working code. I haven't found that problem yet, but I
will keep searching.

Now you would think I don't like Turbo C. That isn't true, Turbo C is an
ansi compiler, MWC is NOT, the handbook is good and it comes with an integral
editor linker compiler tools 'shell'.

If I didn't own MWC I should buy (or least think about it) Turbo C. But now I
own MWC I don't switch to Turbo C, just because MWC comes with much more tools
and other things. 
					Herman Adriani.
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