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Subject: Re: Best compiler?

Author: Matthew White

Date: 13:45:18 08/06/02

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On August 05, 2002 at 13:45:03, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On August 05, 2002 at 07:53:45, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>
>>On August 04, 2002 at 14:34:30, Steve Maughan wrote:
>>
>>>Bas,
>>>
>>>This is a question I've looked into many times.  My estimate is that a program
>>>written in Delphi will probably do ~10% - 20% fewer nps compared to VC++ 6.
>>>TSCP, which has been converted verbatum into Delphi (www.optimalcode.com) is
>>>only 8% slower than the VC++ version.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Steve
>>
>>Ok, I assumed Delphi was not faster than C++ Builder and they used the same
>>backend compiler. Apparently not, then? From my own experience I can tell that
>>VC is 25%-30% faster than C++ Builder for all code that I have ever written. But
>>I use an older version, but I have heard the newer ones are not faster. It is
>>great btw, even if you use it as a straight console mode C++ compiler. Noway
>>that I debug in VC.
>
>Intel C++ is usually (not always) faster than Microsoft C++
I have had bad luck with version 6.0 of the Intel compiler (at least within the
.NET Dev. Environment and in Linux) has this been your experience as well? I
really liked the performance benefit that 5.1 holds over VC6, too bad the new
one seems buggy.



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