Re: Borland C++ bug and impressions

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From: Carl Davidson
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1991 20:29

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From article <1991Mar4.144002.4355@informix.com>, by sdavid@infmx.informix.com (David Sherrick):
> 
> The second thing I noticed (much to my surprise), when I compiled the same
> source code with MSC 6.00 and Borland C++.  The MSC executable was smaller
> than the Borland executable (24k vs 28k) and I had optimization turn OFF 
> in MSC and ON in Borland C++.
> 
> But, being a big Borland fan I am giving them the benefit of the doubt.
> 

Could the difference in size be due to the optimizer unrolling loops, etc.?

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