Thread: I'm a pimp

i would be happy with any laptop as long as a compiler owuld work on it

About how much is a crappy laptop? that is jsut enough for me to run a compiler, and code ?

so you finally traded up...

that laptop cost $10, i got it from a friend. his dad's company was getting rid of its old computers.

as i said already, i installed Turbo C++ 2.01 on it. well, i did some compile time testing are here the results:

Basic "Hello, World!" program (with iostream.h and conio.h included):

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <conio.h>

int main (void )
{
    cout << "Hello, World!";
    getch();
    return 0;
}

That exact code took 42 seconds to compile on the computer. Mainly because of all the overhead from the header files.

I took out conio.h and the getch() function and it reduced to abotu 24 seconds.

I then created a basic graphics program using BGI...which compiled but had some run-time logical errors made by me because i didnt know what graphics mode to use to properly do graphics on that old thing....that program took about 10-15 seconds to compile, and it consisted of only graphics.h. (a Borland header file).

Meanwhile, I have done some BASIC programming on it as well, and those compile in a jiffy! (Mainly because QBasic 1.1 is an interpreter, not a compiler).