Path: news.cs.au.dk!not-for-mail From: Erik Corry Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Beta compiler for win32 Date: 9 May 2000 08:45:53 GMT Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mj=F8lner?= Informatics ApS Lines: 18 Message-ID: <8f8j81$fllm5$1@xinwen.cs.au.dk> References: <39175C98.F806ADF5@mail.kuriren.nu> NNTP-Posting-Host: amigo.cs.au.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: xinwen.cs.au.dk 957861953 16438981 255.255.255.255 (9 May 2000 08:45:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cs.au.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 May 2000 08:45:53 GMT User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980818 ("Laura") (UNIX) (IRIX64/6.5 (IP27)) Xref: news.cs.au.dk comp.lang.beta:12325 Magnus Jonsson wrote: > Is there any beta compiler for win32 except for the Mjölner one? Kai Petzke did a freeware BETA-to-C translator, but I don't think he ever finished it: http://www.physik.tu-berlin.de/~wpp/ > I tried the mjolner beta compiler and i didn't like it mainly > because the executables it generated were huge Remember that BETA has a large runtime system with support for persistence and garbage collection. This means that the minimum size of a simple BETA program like "Hello World" is rather large. That doesn't mean that large BETA programs will necessarily be as large as the size of "Hello World" might lead you to expect. -- Erik Corry erik@arbat.com