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Subject: Re: INTEL C++ finally faster!!

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 09:58:09 04/22/02

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It can be that VC7 is not better than VC6 for that particular program. Of course
there are new compiler flags in the VC7 that allow you to get a better code, but
you must experiment with them; and even then there is no guarantee you'll be
able to get faster program.

Eugene


On April 22, 2002 at 09:46:50, Marcel Veldhuizen wrote:

>On April 20, 2002 at 10:14:09, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>Comparision with msvc 6.0 sp4 + processor pack (at least 2% faster
>>than any other m$ product which one can buy in a shop).
>
><snip>
>
>>I assume they are beaten till they release at the end of this year
>>a new version of msvc, which is still a LONG TIME to go.
>
>Uhhm, VS7 has been out for several months, if you're referring to that one. Why
>are you using SP4 btw, is the compiler that much better, because it has a bunch
>of bugs fixed in SP5 as well.
>
>Visual Studio 6.0 SP5:
>Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 12.00.8804 for 80x86
>Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1998. All rights reserved.
>
>Visual Studio 7.0 (.NET):
>Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.00.9466 for 80x86
>Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1984-2001. All rights reserved
>
>I don't know anything concrete about it's performance though, I still use VC6
>myself.
>
>
>Marcel Veldhuizen



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