From: Jorrit DOT Tyberghein AT uz DOT kuleuven DOT ac DOT be (Jorrit Tyberghein)
Subject: Re: ** Comparison between DJGPP V2 & WATCOM C V10 **
To: jmccarty AT spd DOT dsccc DOT com (Mike McCarty)
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 08:25:55 +0200 (MET DST)
Sender: Jorrit DOT Tyberghein AT uz DOT kuleuven DOT ac DOT be

> This is about the 2nd most ridiculous post I've seen on such subjects.
> This fellow has hard facts to support a claim. You present nothing but
> arrogance. Present some numbers to back up your claim that with
> "applications" (whatever those are) the code is significantly better than
> other products or at least comparable, and so the case is different from
> what happens with "hello-worlds" (whatever those are), or just shut up
> and go away.

I'm writing a database program. The source is about 35000 lines so I think
it is big enough for comparison. I was using Borland C 3.00. It generated
code of about 230K. Now I have switched to DJGPP 1.12maint4 (not 2.0 yet)
and it generates code of about 230K. So in my case the code size is about
the same (note that you have to strip the symbols from the executable
before comparing and I also used -O3 for the best optimization).

Anyway, the code size was about the same but the speed gain with DJGPP was
enourmous.

> How rude!

Greetings,

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Jorrit DOT Tyberghein AT uz DOT kuleuven DOT ac DOT be, University Hospitals KU Leuven BELGIUM

The vermine is a small black and white relative of the lemming, found in
the cold Hublandish regions. Its skin is rare and highly valued, especially
by the vermine itself; the selfish little bastard will do anything rather
than let go of it.
        -- Discworld wildlife
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