Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 23:26:58 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! I use Borland C++ Builder, it works just fine. The IDE is easy to use, and I haven't noticed any bugs at all. I'm using the Standard edition which includes full optimisations. It is quite likely that MSVC would produce a faster executable, but I haven't tried it to test that theory. I would have bought MSVC by now but I can't justify the expense: I don't think the standard version has optimisations, and the Professional version is certainly not cheap. > >Mike Carter (MrMike on ICC) >mcarter@tdi.net
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