Re: Why is the Mac so slow?

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Subject: Re: Why is the Mac so slow?
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Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 01:23:26 EST
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The answer is that there is no good reason for MacPascal to be slow.
Other languages, particularly MacForth and the C compilers run at a
blazing speed on the Mac. I suspect that the Macintosh Pascal system is
a little too large to fit comfortably on a 128k Mac, and therefore does
a lot of disk swaps. If you think about it, MacPascal has a pretty
extensive set of library routines. This is generally considered good in
a compiler, but MacPascal is interpreted, and so has to load them into
memory when they are called. I'm willing to bet that this is a lot of
the initial load and run time.

We can hope that a compatible Pascal compiler will arrive to supplement
MacPascal. Then we can hope for high speed AND development ease.

Kurt