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From: stone@hydra.unm.edu (Andrew Stone CS.DEPT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Compiled HC code
Keywords: even slower!
Message-ID: <4634@charon.unm.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 89 22:44:53 GMT
References: <5966@bsu-cs.UUCP> <990@taurus.BITNET> <75141GFX@PSUVM>
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In article <75141GFX@PSUVM> GFX@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
>>I think that now, that HyperTalk
>
>Do I understand that it is now possible to compile some scripts (eg. functions)
>written in HyperTalk (that's the name of the language used in HC, right?).
>
>Where can we get more information?  How much faster does it execute?  Stephane

I bought CompileIt at MacWorld Expo. It took it 30 minutes to compile this line
of code:

put X + (cos(theta)) into newX

That was the entire function. The XFCN generated operates at at half the speed 
of the normal hypertalk code! That is, the XFCN takes twice as long!

You decide if its worth $99 or whatever dollars.

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