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Subject: Re: How good is the old Turbo C compiler program ???

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 02:47:46 03/02/03

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On March 01, 2003 at 22:21:27, Christophe Theron wrote:

>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:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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.
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>
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>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).

You're right; i was referring to Turbo C++. Later versions had been renamed to
Borland C++ and they did some optimizations.

I guess, that Tanya had asked for the older Turbo C++ thing ?

Uli



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