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- From: Rob Stewart <stew@datalytics.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Subject: Re: fastest code
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 17:52:20 -0400
- Organization: Datalytics, Inc
- Message-ID: <316ADC14.3BC9@datalytics.com>
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- david landgren wrote:
- >
- > Richard Clarke wrote:
- > >
- > > >Chris Marriott <chris@chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- > > >>I've heard it said that Watcom have the best compiler in terms of code
- > > >>speed. What they do NOT have is a particularly good development
- > > >>environment - VC++ is the clear winner in that department.
- > > >
- > > >Who cares? The end user doesn't see the development environment. It's just
- > > >fluff for programmer wannabees.
- > > >--
- > > >
- > >
- > > A good development environment makes it more likely that the user will
- > > end up with a decent piece of software.
- >
- > I dunno. I was looking at my copy of VC2.0, and wondering whether I should
- > upgrade to VC4.0. I looked at the adverts. They talked about the marvellous
- > new features of MFC4.0. They talked about groovy enhancements to the
- > development environment. They talked about all sorts of stuff, but nothing
- > that I was looking for. To whit: do they have RTTI? Namespaces? How much
- > STL can their templates handle? Can they inline virtual functions? Do they
- > grok the C++ casting syntax? Are exceptions still coded as macros? Didn't
- > find any answers to those questions, so I'm not gonna upgrade.
- > [snip]
-
- I don't recall whether 4.x supports RTTI or the new cast
- operators, but it does the rest. 4.x even includes a version of
- the STL. (Some of our folks are using it, many of us haven't
- been able to upgrade yet. The parser is more strict now, and
- they've changed some typedefs and class I/Fs, so things that
- used to work no longer do.)
-
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