From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2003-11-15T17:28:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Microsoft's C/C++ compiler freely available

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_benchmark.shtml?p1

(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/msvc.html
> 
> Of course, I only care for so much longer, since my Powerbook is on order
> ;-)
> 
> 
> Nathaniel
> 
> <:((><
> 

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