Mingw vs Visual C++

What’s the speed of Mingw like as opposed to Visual C++ 6 for SDL
applications under Windows,in general (if that can be answered fairly
easily)?_________________________________________________________________________
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What’s the speed of Mingw like as opposed to Visual C++ 6 for SDL
applications under Windows,in general (if that can be answered fairly
easily)?

Visual C++ 5 produces slightly faster code than gcc, I presume that’s
true of Visual C++ 6. The difference is usually minimal though, so
you’re fine using either for most cases. Visual C++ will let you get
away with terrible code though, so if you use it be warned you may have
a hard time getting your code working on other problems.

See ya,
-Sam Lantinga, Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software

At 22:11 21.02.2001 -0800, you wrote:

Visual C++ 5 produces slightly faster code than gcc, I presume that’s
true of Visual C++ 6. The difference is usually minimal though, so
you’re fine using either for most cases. Visual C++ will let you get
away with terrible code though, so if you use it be warned you may have
a hard time getting your code working on other problems.

Nice typo. Yes. Windows IS a problem :)–
jan.krutisch.de - programmiertfuereineneueaera.

Visual C++ 5 produces slightly faster code than gcc, I presume that’s
true of Visual C++ 6. The difference is usually minimal though, so
you’re fine using either for most cases. Visual C++ will let you get
away with terrible code though, so if you use it be warned you may have
a hard time getting your code working on other problems.

Thanks sam, porting is exactly the problem I’m having now, and it’s showing
all the crap stuff I’ve done in Visual C++. Sigh._________________________________________________________________________
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