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Subject: Re: compilers

Author: Ian Kennedy

Date: 11:35:03 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.
>
>I'm wondering how much faster my program would run if it
>were properly optimized, and compiled with the newest
>MSVC compiler... does anyone have any 'guesstimates'?
>
>How much slower is gcc than msvc?  Where does Cygnus
>come in?
>
>Thanks...
>
>--
>James


At one stage I ran with the Standard Edition (ie no optimisation), the speedup
factor going to the fully optimised compiler was about 100%. And I still get
similar figures between no opt and full opt with the current 5.0/6.0

Ian Kennedy



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