Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 13:44:51 03/02/03
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On March 02, 2003 at 16:20:53, Christophe Theron wrote: >On March 02, 2003 at 05:47:46, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: > >>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. >>> >>> >>> >>>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 > > > >You are right, maybe she just asked for the Turbo C. > >Turbo C (v 2.0) was convenient and I kept on using it for a while because it did >not need the 386 mode. So I could run it on my Olivetti Quaderno (8088 @16MHz) >and develop virtually anywhere (if you remember what a Quaderno was). Chris, I don't remember. I even think that I have never known this thing. -:) Uli > > > > Christophe
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