24 May
2004
24 May
'04
8:14 p.m.
On Monday 24 May 2004 22:08, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Oliver Jones <oliver(a)deeper.co.nz> [2004-05-24 11:52]:
Something that should also be taken into account is that GCC is far from the best optimising C/C++ compiler out there. The Intel and Microsoft compilers are probably able to squeeze in the order of 20-30% more performance out of some code. If the marketing is to be believed at least. I would estimate (without any emperical data) that they probably produce executables that are 10% faster overall.
The Microsoft compiler is not impressive at all. Intel's offerings are much better, ...
MS use an in-house compiler that is not Visual C/C++ (but some of whose technologies do filter down to the latter). /sid.