Path: news.cs.au.dk!not-for-mail From: "Sascha Kimmel" Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: RE: Beta compiler for win32 Date: 9 May 2000 15:43:01 -0000 Organization: University of Aarhus, Department of Computer Science (DAIMI) Lines: 35 Approved: mailtonews@cs.au.dk Distribution: world Message-ID: <20000509154301.28591.qmail@noatun.mjolner.dk> Reply-To: "Sascha Kimmel" NNTP-Posting-Host: daimi.cs.au.dk X-Trace: xinwen.cs.au.dk 957887058 16102108 255.255.255.255 (9 May 2000 15:44:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cs.au.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 May 2000 15:44:18 GMT Xref: news.cs.au.dk comp.lang.beta:12327 Hi! Id f you don't need the DEBUG information you can compile the files using BETA -d filename.bet Regards, Sascha Kimmel > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Corry [mailto:corry@mjolner.dk] > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 10:46 AM > To: usergroup@mjolner.dk > Subject: Re: Beta compiler for win32 > > > 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 >