Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:25:34 02/01/00
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On February 01, 2000 at 12:22:02, Mike Carter wrote: >I started writing a Visual Basic chess program but have decided to migrate to >C++. Checking out Microsoft compilers, the Enterprise version of 6.0 seems to >be overkill (and at $1300 out of price range!). Microsoft's Standard version of >C++ 6.0 is about $100 and the Professional version is $550. Assuming I'm using >this to write chess code exclusively, is the extra $450 justified to move up to >Professional? Or is another company (e.g. Borland) a better choice/value? (If >it matters, I have a Pentium II 400 MHz with 128Mb RAM and would eventually like >to port the program to WinBoard). Many thanks in advance for your opinion! > >Mike Carter (MrMike on ICC) >mcarter@tdi.net I have recently been in contact with someone who owns the "standard" edition. I'm not 100% certain, but it seems that this edition does NOT do optimizations. A compiler that does not do optimizations is a waste of money, because you can get GCC for free, and it does a respectable job of optimizing. VC does a better job, but not $550 better... :) Actually, VC has a decent IDE and a pretty good online help system; this may be worth $100 to you. I know I'm going to get flamed for saying this, but current Borland products are crap. They produce slow programs, and the IDEs are poorly implemented and totally bug-ridden. (To be fair, the last time I used a Borland compiler was 2 years ago, and the situation may have improved since then.) -Tom
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