Re: gcc question

From: Bonj (a_at_b.com)
Date: 02/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 02:32:00 -0000

so, if I limit myself to 'fairly cheap' or less, then the fastest compiler
is gcc?

"Andy Sinclair" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:h1pp20hlv6b819au181ugb8bm1kdbkp7g5@4ax.com...
> Bonj wrote:
> >When you say 'faster', do you mean faster to actually do the compilation,
or the resulting .exe will actually be faster?
> >If it's the former then I'm not bothered at all, and probably will remain
unbothered even when I'm not a beginner.
> >I'm trying to get a handle on the relative benefits of the very latest MS
standard compiler (the free one in the v1.1 SDK, i.e. the 7.1 non-optimizer)
and the various others. Factors that are important to me (in order) are:
> I am referring to how fast the generated executable is.
>
> >1) Quality (speed) of code in produced .exe
> MSVC (Pro or Ent) is likely to be slightly faster because it is
> optimised to run on x86 hardware. Note that the difference is
> execution speed is only likely to be small, and shouldn't be
> significant for most software you are likely to write.
> MSVC standard will be slower than Gcc because it doesn't do any
> optimising.
>
> >2) Free-ness (although if it's not free, then price isn't an object -
it's either free or it's not, only two possible levels of benefit here as I
can get hold of any of the MS ones, I'd just rather it was free)
> Gcc is free.
> MSVC Std is fairly cheap.
> MSVC Pro is less cheap.
>
> >3) Conformance
> Gcc and MSVC have good conformance.
> MSVC used to have several problems conforming to the C++ standard with
> VC5 and 6 but VC7 is much better.
>
> Andy
>

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