Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 01:59:31 06/26/04
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On June 26, 2004 at 02:03:17, Russell Reagan wrote: >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/ Thanks Russell. I will have to make some hardware and software decisions down the road but right now I think my main goal is stable, bug-free code. I still have a ways to go. Eric: you probably do too. People like Russell will be there for us when the time is right. Dan H.
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