Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 09:35:21 01/11/04
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I bought the student version of 2003.net (which is basically the prof. version). It generates about 10% faster code than V6 for my program (of course all updates and best optimization settings I could find). The IDE in the new version is *excellent*. I am very impressed with the product. Georg 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
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