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Subject: Re: Windows Port

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 08:25:00 02/22/01

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On February 22, 2001 at 11:03:49, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On February 22, 2001 at 10:57:27, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>
>>Have you tried compiling under Cygwin? (www.cygwin.com)
>>It's a free win32 port for gcc.  It may be much easier to produce
>>a win executable with that... and on the tests I've done the
>>cygwin binaries were faster than the MSVC 6 binaries with
>>full optimizations.
>
>Really?? The gnu compiler under linux or the djgpp compiler produces vastly
>inferior binaries than MSVC 6. If you're right, the cygwin people must have done
>a hell of a job making a i386 backend for the compiler.

I just compiled my engine with full optimization on both compilers, and cygwin
is about 76% the speed of MSVC 6. Or MSVC is about 32% faster.



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