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Subject: Re: Fastest freeware C++ compiler?

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 04:13:30 12/14/03

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On December 14, 2003 at 05:42:13, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 14, 2003 at 05:38:25, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>Best times:
>>MSVC6Pro   2494 ms
>>GCC3.3.1   2437 ms
>>
>>So there it is roughly equal, although I imagine I could get some more out of
>>gcc by using some more specific optimization options.
>
>I see 2% difference, not what I'd call significantly faster. You can improve
>your GCC results with profile feedback optimization though, so it will end
>up reasonably faster after all.

You can also improve VC performance by upgrading to ver 7.1 (and soon 8.0).

VC6 should be compared to GCC2.8 or so to get a fair comparison for state of the
art for early 1998...


Bo Persson



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