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Article #11031Re: Misc. Questions
From: randy hyde
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 23:50
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 23:50
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MSC 6.0 generates the best code of any PC compiler I've seen, by far. However, it is a very complex beast and has its share of bugs. It is also very *slow* (optimizing compilers always are). Borland C++ (don't even consider the other stuff) is C++ v2.0 which is really neat. It's also much faster than MSC. But the output code is terrible. OTOH, if you make a lot of library calls, MSC's libraries are written mostly in C vs. Borland's libraries which have a good number of the routines written in assembly. These tends to even out the performance, if you call library routines all over the place. WATCOM C 8.0 is supposed to be really good too, but I haven't had the chance to test it. As for the assembler, get MASM 6.0. It's great. Works fine with Borland products. It has a lot of new features that are really great. It's going to be a while before SLR or Borland catch up with MASM 6.0.
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