Hello,
I don't have any direct comparisons between Lahey and DEC but I can
tell you that the DEC compiler is much faster than the uSoft
Powerstation compiler.
I have seen a 3-5x improvement with NEC4 and it looks like NEC2 has a
similar increase in speed.
The DEC compiler uses the Powerstation front end which was pretty
decent even when uSoft was developing it.
The DEC compiler does have a bug with memory allocation. It will not
let you allocate more than 256 megs(4095 segments) of virtual memory
with Windows 95. Windows NT (v4.0 service pack 3) does not appear to
suffer from this bug and can allocate over a gig of virtual memory.
The DEC technical support staff was helpful and they are currently
looking into the Windows 95 memory problem.
Joe Finnerty
Received on Wed Feb 04 1998 - 09:29:12 EST
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