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

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 14:37:28 05/11/00

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On May 11, 2000 at 17:20:11, Tom King wrote:

>On May 11, 2000 at 13:28:10, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>[snip]
>>
>>
>>GCC produces very good code.
>>
>>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).
>>
>
>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

Try toying with the "-O3" number, allot of times -O6 or 7 will be somewhat
faster for me.

>
>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!

I just send a moderator email and explained the change, and it worked, but
there's also an email address where you can reach Steven ICD's storefront
webpage, and that'll get it done too I guess.

Pete

>
>>So the standard edition of MSVC6 will produce a code that will be much slower
>>than what you get with the free GCC.
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>>
>>
>>
>>>  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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