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Re: Microsoft's C/C++ compiler freely available

Zach Dennis

11/15/2003 8:29:00 AM

GCC on a win32 platform?

Zach

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarrera@math.umd.edu]
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 3:26 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Microsoft's C/C++ compiler freely available


Question:
Why would you want to use Microsoft's C/C++ compiler when gcc is
available? No sarcasm. This is an honest question.

* I saw a benchmark of compilers in which gcc and MS shared the second
place (1st was Intel):

http://www.willus.com/ccomp_benchmar...

(see the update for Sep 10/02)
This is impressive considering that Intel and MS only cater to one
hardware platform, whereas gcc caters to many.

* Given the above, wouldn't it make sense to use a compiler that isn't
tied to one particular hardware? Especially if you plan on using more
than one hardware.

Cheers,
Daniel.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 01:22:29PM +0900, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
> Thought this might be interesting to those stuck on win32...
>
> http://www.winprog.org/tutorial...
>
> Of course, I only care for so much longer, since my Powerbook is on order
> ;-)
>
>
> Nathaniel
>
> <:((><
>

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2 Answers

Daniel Carrera

11/15/2003 8:37:00 AM

0

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:28:32PM +0900, Zach Dennis wrote:
> GCC on a win32 platform?
>
> Zach


Yes.

http://www....

MinGW's port of gcc is what the author tested in his benchmarks. It tends
to be a little behind the GNU port of gcc, but not much (I don't think).

Cheers,
Daniel.


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarrera@math.umd.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 3:26 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Microsoft's C/C++ compiler freely available
>
>
> Question:
> Why would you want to use Microsoft's C/C++ compiler when gcc is
> available? No sarcasm. This is an honest question.
>
> * I saw a benchmark of compilers in which gcc and MS shared the second
> place (1st was Intel):
>
> http://www.willus.com/ccomp_benchmar...
>
> (see the update for Sep 10/02)
> This is impressive considering that Intel and MS only cater to one
> hardware platform, whereas gcc caters to many.
>
> * Given the above, wouldn't it make sense to use a compiler that isn't
> tied to one particular hardware? Especially if you plan on using more
> than one hardware.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 01:22:29PM +0900, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
> > Thought this might be interesting to those stuck on win32...
> >
> > http://www.winprog.org/tutorial...
> >
> > Of course, I only care for so much longer, since my Powerbook is on order
> > ;-)
> >
> >
> > Nathaniel
> >
> > <:((><
> >
>
> --
> Daniel Carrera | Aleph-0 bottles of beer on the wall, Aleph-0 bottles
> PhD student. | of beer. Take one down, pass it around, Aleph-0
> Math Dept. | bottles of beer on he wall...
> UMD, | http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Al...
>
>
>

--
Daniel Carrera | Aleph-0 bottles of beer on the wall, Aleph-0 bottles
PhD student. | of beer. Take one down, pass it around, Aleph-0
Math Dept. | bottles of beer on he wall...
UMD, | http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Al...

Gour

11/15/2003 9:54:00 AM

0

Daniel Carrera (dcarrera@math.umd.edu) wrote:

> http://www....
>
> MinGW's port of gcc is what the author tested in his benchmarks. It tends
> to be a little behind the GNU port of gcc, but not much (I don't think).

And with MSYS you get practically the same comfort as on Linux i.e.
configure; make ; make install :-)

Sincerely,
Gour

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