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From: wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Which C Environment, Also Memory
Message-ID: <479@sdacs.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 9 Dec 87 22:38:46 GMT
Organization: UCSD Academic Computing Services
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What is the preferred C development environment on the Amiga 1000?

We have Lattice C, whatever version would have been sold about 1.5-2 years
ago. The system is an Amiga 1000 with the 256K memory expansion (Total
512 RAM) and 1 external floppy.

The edit compile link run bomb edit cycle seems unbearably slow with this
setup.  Using ramdisks, caching, compiling in one session and letting that
run in "background" while editing...none of this seems to help. It takes on
the order of 7-10 minutes to create "hello world".

What environment (compiler, editor, etc. do you use? And how do you have
it configured? Is there anything like the LightspeedC environment on the 
(pardon me) Macintosh?

Also, how much of a constraint is the 512K of RAM? Does 1 meg dramatically
increase performance? How about a hard disk? Are they worth it?
Of course they are, you say. But I mean does a ~$1000 hard disk, as
compared to  ~$250 for a PC or $500 for a Mac hard disk,  make the
described configuration _perform_ that much better for program development?

We are looking for significant improvement over the configuration described
at hopefully a reasonable cost...

Please please reply by mail if at all possible...If anyone wants to see a
summary posted I will do so.


Thank you.

Wade Blomgren
UCSD
wade@sdacs.ucsd.edu