Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!think!ames!hc!beta!cmcl2!phri!orville!dvm!hymie 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 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 19:42:44 EDT References: <3054@zen.berkeley.edu> <680004@ui3.UUCP> Reply-To: hymie@dvm.UUCP (Hyman Rosen) Organization: Philon, Inc. (NY, NY) Lines: 22 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 That information is out of date; it's true enough for Turbo Pascal, but Turbo C and Turbo Prolog both compile to *.OBJ files, allow linkage to modules from other languages/compilers, and come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. -- - Hymie ...{decvax,ihnp4,ucbvax}!allegra!phri!orville!dvm!hymie