Path: news.cs.au.dk!not-for-mail From: "Kasper Østerbye" Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Beta compiler for win32 Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 16:39:47 +0200 Organization: University of Aarhus, Department of Computer Science (DAIMI) Lines: 32 Message-ID: <8f97vj$fblrd$1@xinwen.cs.au.dk> References: <39175C98.F806ADF5@mail.kuriren.nu> NNTP-Posting-Host: xmas.cs.au.dk X-Trace: xinwen.cs.au.dk 957883187 16111469 255.255.255.255 (9 May 2000 14:39:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cs.au.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 May 2000 14:39:47 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: news.cs.au.dk comp.lang.beta:12326 Magnus Jonsson wrote in message news:<39175C98.F806ADF5@mail.kuriren.nu>... > > Is there any beta compiler for win32 except for the Mjölner one? > > I tried the mjolner beta compiler and i didn't like it mainly > because the executables it generated were huge I tend to agree, large execuatables are an annoying thing, it takes time to load and take up a lot of space on the hardrive. However, I tried something else. I have written a application which does something like JavaDoc for Beta. The ".exe" file (this is on a Windows NT) is 652 K. However, when the program is running, it is just above 3000 K in the Task Manager. Then I tried to look at JavaDoc, which is 25K for the ".exe" file. Nice small program. However, while it prints its help text, it uses approx 6000K. I am supprised at the size of both the runtime sizes. Regarding Eric's answer, the beta compiler itself is about 3750 K. If that is large for a compiler I will let you judge. My conclusion is not to use Beta or Java for programming shell commands, but for larger systems. -- Kasper