Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Complex Numbers in C
Message-ID: <5763@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 89 20:41:40 GMT
References: <53@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <53@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>, cs161agc@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (John Schultz) says:

>   I've also got Lattice 5.0 on my 16 bit Amiga.  I
> couldn't possibly imagine doing any serious work with C++ on the
> Amiga considering how incredibly slow Lattice compiles (it's a fine
> product, just too slow for me).  But, seeing as how you're the "32
> bit guy", it's probably quite nice on a 32 bit Amiga.

I'll have to admit that, yeah, I do use it exclusively on A2500 type
machines.  With fast hard drive, too.  I mentioned on bix once that I
thought Lattice C++ was palatable on a 32 bit machine thus equipped, but
I wouldn't want to try it on a vanilla Amiga.  Tim Holloway, who wrote
the thing, replied back that he developed it on a floppy-based A1000 with
extra memory.  So I guess it can be used on such a machine, but it's
certainly got to be over 4x slower per file compiled than Manx C.  I still
which it were faster, and perhaps if it's successful in the cfront version,
Lattice will produce a two phase compiler for it that works more like their
current C compiler.

>   John Schultz
-- 
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