Author: martin fierz
Date: 09:48:13 01/10/04
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On January 10, 2004 at 12:35:51, Matthew McKnight wrote: >On January 10, 2004 at 11:29:24, martin fierz wrote: > >>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 > > >I installed VC++ 7 and I had the modern processor optimization option. The >funny thing is, with those optimizations turned on, the code didn't run any >faster than VC++ 6 compiled code (acually tiny bit slower). Isn't that odd? > >Matt hi matt, i guess that answers my question ;-) cheers martin
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