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Subject: Re: Is Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 -Standard- useable?

Author: Tom King

Date: 14:20:11 05/11/00

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On May 11, 2000 at 13:28:10, Christophe Theron wrote:

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>GCC produces very good code.
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>For Chess Tiger I have just discovered that by using some different optimization
>options it produces code that is as fast as the code generated by MSVC 6.0, SP3,
>with maximise speed on. And this is an old version of GCC (2.7.x).
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Hi Christophe!

I'm still using gcc 2.7.2, and am a big fan of GCC.

What optimizations have you find which produce fast code from GCC?

I'm using -O3 -m486 -fomit-frame-pointer

Any others worthwhile?

Rgds,
Tom

tom_king@btinternet.com
*not* tom@hatbulb.demon.co.uk any longer, but I don't know how to tell CCC that!

>So the standard edition of MSVC6 will produce a code that will be much slower
>than what you get with the free GCC.
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>    Christophe
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>>  In other words, would one of the biggest things
>>I'd give up be the speed that MS compilers are know for, and basically I'd get a
>>good package anyhow?  Because I'm not really convinced that I have a real need
>>to be turning out ultra fast programs, when a good learning tool might really be
>>more effective (as long as it really can compile programs).  And not that I have
>>the backround to do it now, but I think creating a program & interface probably
>>interests most people.
>>
>>Pete



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