Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 12:07:30 04/16/01
A week ago I bought the microsoft compiler. I download from the microsoft web site the service packs, I installed them and compiled my program. I tried many things (maybe I am still doing something wrong) but still the nps is 3x slower than djgpp and 2.5x slower than cygwin in a AMD K6-2 400 mhz (both djgpp and cygwin are gcc ports). Interestingly, I just tried and in a pentium III 700 mhz is ~40% faster and in a PII is ~35% faster than the gcc executable. Has anybody ever experienced something similar? There is a chance that I am doing something wrong, but what? It can't be just a switch, the difference is huge! There should be no problems with Athlons since Dann Corbit compiled it last time and got a 50% speed up using MVSC 6.0 in one of those processors. Summarizing, MVSC gives speed ups of 30-50% compared to cygwin in any machine but mine, which is 2.5 fold *SLOWER*. Is that murphy's law or what? :-) Regards, Miguel
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