Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 17:08:23 02/01/00
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On February 01, 2000 at 18:20:03, Dan Newman wrote: >On February 01, 2000 at 13:25:34, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>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 > >I (briefly) had the "standard" edition and returned it. As I recall it did do >optimizations, but it didn't give you any way to control them--other than >on/off--which wasn't acceptable... And it had no profiler... > >-Dan. The profiler is not a good reason to buy any version of VC. It's an absolute POS. -Tom
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