Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:21:27 03/01/03
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On March 01, 2003 at 17:54:51, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>On March 01, 2003 at 16:52:30, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On March 01, 2003 at 16:38:56, Tanya Deborah wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>>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?
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>>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.
Maybe we are not talking about the same product. I think Turbo C 2.0 did almost
no optimization (it is easy to recognize, it is the one that does no
color-syntax in the editor).
Borland C++ 3.1 is able to optimize (it has a dozen optimization options). I'm
talking about the DOS part of the compiler, not the Win3x part (which,
interestingly, is probably not used anymore when its DOS counterpart still is).
Christophe
>>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
>
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>> Christophe
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