From: Daniel Carrera Date: 2003-11-15T17:36:59+09:00 Subject: Re: Microsoft's C/C++ compiler freely available On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:28:32PM +0900, Zach Dennis wrote: > GCC on a win32 platform? > > Zach Yes. http://www.mingw.org/ 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_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 > > > > <:((>< > > > > -- > 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/Aleph-0.html > > > -- 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/Aleph-0.html