Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!cgeisler
From: cgeisler@maytag.waterloo.edu (Craig Eisler)
Subject: Re: Open letter to Microsoft re: SDK and C6.0 (long)
Message-ID: <1990Dec9.122243.11617@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: sdk msc6.0 compiler windows nasty horrible stuff
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <5880@crash.cts.com> <59623@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 90 12:22:43 GMT
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In article <59623@microsoft.UUCP> keithro@microsoft.UUCP (Keith ROWE) writes:
>C 6.0 is the fully optimizing compiler that comes from C 5.x.
>Because it does a lot of global analysis it is much slower than QC but is
>roughly equal in speed to other compilers that generate similar quality
>code.	

Sorry, I can't resist this. "roughly equal?".  As an experiment, I used 
C 6.0 to recompile a pet project of mine (~28000 lines).  Not only did it
take over *twice* as long as Watcom C 8.0, but the executable that it generated
didn't work (and no, I didn't have any of those ludicrous "unsafe" optimizations
turned on). And Watcom C does indeed generate similar quality code (only
the code they generate always seems to work, unlike C 6.0)

"Roughly equal" my fanny. :-)

>Keith Rowe
>Program Manager - C Languages
>Microsoft, Inc.

craig
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Craig Eisler, still hiding from the real world.
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.