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Subject: Re: C++ compilers

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:54:19 08/18/01

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On August 18, 2001 at 03:40:01, Frank Phillips wrote:

>On August 18, 2001 at 03:06:38, pavel wrote:
>
>>simple questions,
>>
>>whats the best Commercial C++ compilers out there? (in your opinion)
>>and how good is borland 5.02?
>>
>>tnx
>>pavs.
>
>My program (mostly C) is 25-30% faster with MS VC++ (for Windows) than gcc-2.96
>under Linux.  If I recall correctly Borland under Windows was similar to gcc.
>
>MS is best (for speed) but you need to be prepared to spend a lot of money to
>buy the non-learning version if you want fast executables.

Though results vary from system to system, you might also try the Intel
compiler.  Note that it requires MS VC++ 6.0 or higher, and has no IDE by itself
(it uses the MS VC++ IDE).

You can do a trial for free.  Sometimes there is a good speedup, sometimes not.



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