Author: David Blackman
Date: 02:42:03 05/03/99
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On May 02, 1999 at 17:29:40, James Swafford wrote: > >For ages now I've been using MSVC++ 4.0 Standard Edition. >It's a few years old. :-) > >The standard edition doesn't optimize, and doesn't offer >a profiler. [ cut ] >Thanks... >James I think 4.0 was 16 bit wasn't it? And very little optimisation? My guess is that GCC would be quite a lot faster. Anything from a few percent up to maybe 3 times faster. Most comparisons put the latest MSVC a bit faster than GCC, although i have heard of a few rare cases where it is a bit slower too. I guess when you said Cygnus you meant EGCS. (Cygnus are heavily involved in EGCS, but so are other people.) EGCS is pretty similar to GCC (heavily based on it). For Intel chips the EGCS has been a shade slower than standard GCC for my work, but it's c++ is a lot more complete and less buggy than the GCC version. The EGCS people are still working hard on optimisation however, so it might get faster. It has recently been anounced that the next official release of GCC will actually be EGCS. GCC and EGCS do have profilers and debuggers, probably as add-ons to get seperately, but they are free.
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