> > This eliminates: > > a) C++ using any platform independent library, like gtk, qt, > > wxwidgets, etc, because the library is too big to fit a floppy > > Which library do you use for Pascal that fits in a floppy?
LCL (Win32 on Windows and gtk 1.2 for Linux). After strip and upx I get: 700kb on Linux 420kb on Windows And this does not require any special library to be distributed. I am guessing any modern linux already comes with gtk 1.2 +. The main size problem is for Windows, witch in run on the vast majority of old computers. The app needs to fit a floppy and run on a 233Mhz computer with Windows 95. Lazarus produces this kind of app. The result with Delphi is significantly superior as I get a 400kb app that handles XML DOM, many forms and lot´s of data without upx. But is not platform independent... > Perl is usually fast, Python not so much. But anyway if you want fast go with > assambler :-). No, I have already seen a speed comparion using the factoring of a number as the problem. Perl and Python are overwelmingly inferior no anything, including Java, c++ and pascal. java is slow then both c++ and pascal. Assembler is not cpu independend =) -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
