Author: martin fierz
Date: 08:29:24 01/10/04
i'm using microsoft visual studio 2002 (version 7.0.9492) - which for example has no support for modern processors in the optimizations box of the C compiler - the best you can optimize for is "pentium pro". i'm wondering how much better the current version would be. has anybody ever tried the latest visual studio? i got an evaluation version of MSVC professional, but unfortunately, they disabled the optimizations in that one, so i couldn't test myself.... on a similar note: is it possible to buy just a C compiler upgrade? being an old man, plain C is all i use, and all the new bells and whistles in visual studio only confuse me. but i haven't seen any way of upgrading the C compiler - all MS seems to be selling is a standard edition of visual C, and standard means the compiler can't optimize :-( eugene, if you read this - can't you convince somebody at MS to sell just the optimizing C compiler alone? ;-) cheers martin
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