Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 14:54:51 03/01/03
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On March 01, 2003 at 16:52:30, Christophe Theron wrote: >On March 01, 2003 at 16:38:56, Tanya Deborah wrote: > >> >> >> >>Hi to all! >> >>Somebody can please tell me how good is this compiler? >> >>Somebody here have some experience using this old compiler for chess, or another >>game? How good it is? > > > >Good, but does not optimize as well as current compilers. In fact I'd rather say, it doesn't optimize at all. Those days, I had looked to the assembler code generated by Turbo-C. It was real terrible regarding performance issues. > >Also, it's a 16 bits compiler. So you are going to suffer from 64Kb limitations: >a module cannot exceed 64Kb and accessing a block of memory bigger than 64Kb is >not easy. > >Also, it's a DOS compiler without extender. That means that your program + your >data cannot be bigger than 512Kb (approximately, because both DOS and your >program must fit in 640Kb). > >I would highly recommend DJGPP+RHIDE as a replacement of Turbo C. They have >almost the same very efficient user interface, and the programs you create are >true 32 bits executables. You can run them in a DOS box but they do not have the >limitations above. > >I develop Chess Tiger using DJGPP+RHIDE, so I can tell you it's a very good >compiler. And it's 100% free. Agreed, a good advice. Uli > > > > Christophe
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