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From: hymie@dvm.UUCP (Hyman Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Novice questions -Multitasking?  And Borland.
Message-ID: <320@dvm.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 03:05:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: dvm.320
Posted: Sun Jul 19 03:05:29 1987
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Reply-To: hymie@dvm.UUCP (Hyman Rosen)
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In article <680004@ui3.UUCP> smith@ui3.UUCP writes:
><	2.  What makes Borland's compilers so fast?...
>
>	[...]
>      The second thing Borland has is a one pass compiler.  This makes for
>   quick compilation, but means that you can't link in pre compiled modules
>   from other sources....

	That information is out of date; it's true enough for Turbo Pascal,
but Turbo C and Turbo Prolog both compile to *.OBJ files, allow linkage to
modules from other languages/compilers, and come with their own linker which
is substantially faster than Microsoft's. And these compilers are equal in
compilation speed to Turbo Pascal.

	I suspect that Borland simply(?) locates developers with good, if not
widely known, products and polishes them up a bit.
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								- Hymie

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