Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:09:10 02/01/00
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On February 01, 2000 at 16:22:44, Jon Dart wrote: >The Professional version is (as the name indicates) what most >professional Windows programmers use. It's not cheap but you >can get it somewhat off list price if you shop around (e.g. >http://www.pparadise.com has it for $479). You can get started >with a less capable compiler but if you are a serious Windows >programmer you will likely want to get this eventually. > >I have had a significant amount of trouble with the VC++ >optimizer. Even with all the service packs installed, I have >still seen cases where it generates bad code. It's not that >you can't use it, but you may have to reduce the optimization >level for parts of your code (with consequent loss in >performance). You also get the fun of figuring out if your code >is wrong or if the compiler is screwing it up :-). But you may >or may not encounter this problem. I have heard this from a handful of people. I personally have never encountered a problem with the VC optimizer (and I've been using VC for a while now). Once in a long while, my program will break if I turn on optimizations, but I always track the problem back to my own code. I know that MS uses VC to compile its other products. Say what you want about the stability of MS products, but that's a LOT of code that [usually] works. =) -Tom
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