Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 08:11:04 04/17/01
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On April 16, 2001 at 15:07:30, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >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? Did you buy the standard version of MSVC? It lacks the optimizer and hence is nearly useless. Of course you'll have to dig a bit trough it's docs before you find any mention of that little fact... -- GCP
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