Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:41:39 +0200 (MET DST)
From:	Jan Hubicka <hubicka AT ta DOT jcu DOT cz>
To:	qed AT chromatic DOT com
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: The numer 1 compiler, DJGPP or MSVC Here's a good rating co
In-Reply-To:	<199709161458.HAA04899@chromatic.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.LNX.3.95.970917104002.5532A-100000@tabor.ta.jcu.cz>
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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997 qed AT chromatic DOT com wrote:

> > This is probably true. I am making program XaoS (wich is realtime fractal
> > zoomer) and it is completly coded in C and speed is really significant.
> > I found GCC as the best compiler for that (I done tests at Watcom, VC,
> > Borland etc) and GCC won, at least in FP mset calcualtion loop it seems to
> > be best optimizing compiler around (and egcs (pre-gcc3.0) got another 30%
> > speedup) So I don't think that GCC generates ugly code. See Borland one
> > instead :)
> 
> Yes, I am familliar with Xaos.  Have you seen mandel.exe?  You can 
> find it at:
> 
>     http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/9498/mandel.zip
looks really interesting :) I have to browse it more detaily..
what reslution, iterations etc does it use?
> 
> It uses WATCOM C/C++ for most of the code, but for the most 
> *executed* code, it is pure assembly language.
well, I want to have XaoS portable so pure assembly is not the way
to go..I personally think that (at least prerelase of version 3.0)
is quite fast.

Honza
> 
> - qed
> 

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