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Subject: Re: ms vc6 vs borlands c++ pro for crafty

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 17:45:13 09/18/99

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On September 18, 1999 at 19:22:23, Hristo wrote:

>On September 18, 1999 at 15:12:42, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>
>>I agree with Mr.Hamstra.
>>
>>Inprise C++ is a bit slower but is the better overall developement system.
>
>one MAJOR problen I had with Borland(Inprise) is that it didn't support
>32bit inline assembler, i.e. no EAX, ECX, .. etc unless you buy and install
>Turbo Assember. In this case the compile times were slower than MSVC and
>the generated code was still slower.

I use BCB 4.x and TASM is back! You can inline assembly like in the old Turbo C
days. Works perfectly. Source level debugging works even in assembly, stepping
line by line through the code.

>Overall development system usefulness is largelly dependent on the projects
>I'm working on. RAD systems are great if I don't want to deal to closely
>with the interface issues. However the compilers are the backbone of a
>devlopment system, so I like to use the best compiler.
>
>regards.
>hristo

What I hear is VC produces the fastest code and is most widely used. If you want
to do Windows BCB is easier to learn. It is all that Delphi is (which is quite
something) but in stead of Pascal it uses C/C++. It compiles all C/C++ code
without problem. The ease of Visual Basic and the power of C/C++. Experts seem
to prefer VC, because although more difficult to learn, it gives you more
control over details.


Regards,

Bas Hamstra.



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