Author: Heiko Mikala
Date: 14:57:09 02/25/00
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On February 25, 2000 at 17:40:55, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >On February 25, 2000 at 17:33:58, Heiko Mikala wrote: > >>On February 25, 2000 at 17:20:12, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >> >>>On February 25, 2000 at 17:01:15, Heiko Mikala wrote: >>> >>>>Hi everybody! >>>> >>>>Great news for all programmers of freeware chess engines (and all the other >>>>C/C++ programmers too): [...] >>As far as I know, there are a lot of >>chess programmers out there, who don't own a full-blown commercial IDE including >>a debugger but instead use gcc and gdb in some form. The Borland compiler *may* >>be a good alternative for them to build faster executables. I'm not sure about >>this of course, since I didn't test the compiler yet. > >Code quality is not among strong points of Borland compiler. I suspect that even >GCC would produce the better executable, if you'll use not outdated version. Yes, I know. To be honest, the latest Borland C++ version I tried was 3.1. It wasn't bad (the IDE was great), but MSC, Watcom and GCC were better at code quality. Then followed Borland C++ 4.5 which got really bad reviews and, I think, was the start of the downfall of Borland. But who knows, this is a new compiler release, the 5.4 version of the compiler was said to be good (not as good as MSVC though), and this is the new version supposed to be the motor of the upcoming C++ Builder 5. Btw, I still remember the times when GCC was one of the best compilers concerning producing fast code. This was the time of MSC 6/7 and at that time only Watcom was better. MSC was still only 16 bit then of course. During the last years MSVC++ has been on top, but who says this couldn't change? But I guess you know better. What happened to all the good people from the Zortech/Symantec C++ and the Watcom C++ development teams? Are they all at Microsoft now? Greetings, Heiko. P.S.: What I forgot to mention: Turbo C 2.01 and Turbo Pascal 5.5 have been available for free download from the Borland "Museum" for a long time already. Turbo C 2.01 includes a debugger too ;-) but can only produce MS-Dos applications of course...
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