Author: Dan Newman
Date: 20:28:56 02/01/00
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On February 01, 2000 at 20:08:23, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 Yeah, I've tried to use it a couple of times and got nowhere--well, I did finally get some output, but couldn't really make any sense of it... So, yes, POS... Watcom's was much better--it even had a GUI interface, but Watcom is defunct :( -Dan.
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