Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 23:03:17 06/25/04
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On June 26, 2004 at 00:42:02, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >It's on the menu (greyed out in my case). I think there was a "professional" >version that had it but mine's the cheap version. Thanks anyway. I thought about that after I had posted, that it might only be present in VC6 Pro and above. In that case, you have the Standard version. I don't think the standard version even comes with an optimizing compiler. So not having a profiler may not be a big issue. Do you think non-optimized code will still give a good picture of the program if it were profiled? I am not sure. In any case, you could do better than VC6 Standard. You can still use the IDE if you like it, but you could get a free compiler like GCC for Windows to compile and test the code for speed issues. GCC does a decent job of optimizing these days, and it has a debugger and a profiler (and no telling what other goodies I have yet to discover). The newest GCC does a better job of optimizing than the VC6 Pro version that I have, and VC6 isn't going to get any better anytime soon, while GCC will continue to be developed and improved. There are even free IDEs that are comparable to the VC6 IDE. Here is a free one that I've used that comes with GCC: http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html Or if you want a whole slew of GNU/Linux tools along with the command line GCC, you can get Cygwin. I have this and use it often. http://www.cygwin.com/
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