Path: news.cs.au.dk!news.net.uni-c.dk!uninett.no!newsfeed1.telia.no!masternews.telia.net!newsfeed101.telia.com!news101.telia.com!not-for-mail From: "Rohirrim" Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Beta compiler for win32 Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 18:52:08 +0200 Organization: Customer at Telia Danmark (http://www.telia.dk/) Lines: 37 Message-ID: <8fauum$4ge$1@news101.telia.com> References: <20000509154301.28591.qmail@noatun.mjolner.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc146131.stofanet.dk X-Trace: news101.telia.com 957939478 4622 212.10.81.131 (10 May 2000 06:17:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 May 2000 06:17:58 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:12330 > Id f you don't need the DEBUG information you can compile the files using > BETA -d filename.bet Which reduces the binary from 652K to 319K > > 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 > > >