Date:	Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:00:15 +0200 (MDT)
Message-Id:	<3.0.16.19970606115220.356f2bc0@hem1.passagen.se>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From:	Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
Subject:	Re: Speed of DJGPP?
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Mime-Version:	1.0

At 11.19 1997-06-05 +0300, you wrote:
>
>On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Peter Palotas wrote:
>
>> I read somewhere that DJGPP compiled a file at about half the time Borland
>> C++ did. I can't agree with this, because I think DJGPP is really really
>> slow in compiling files.
>
>No, it's the other way around: GCC is twice SLOWER than BC.  I have
>actually measured the compilation speed of these two compilers on some
>code and saw the factor of two (BC is twice as fast as GCC).

Okay, then I misinterpreted what the guy wrote. This makes more sense.
Although, I presume DJGPP makes faster code than BC!? Although, it produces
about the same code as Watcom from what I have understood, so the question
is, why does it have to be slower?

>> And that is not only on my 486/66, also on my
>> friends Pentiums and other computers. A friend of mine uses Watcom instead,
>> just because he thinks DJGPP is too slow.
>
>Please ask your friend to support his opinion with some facts.  AFAIK,
>Watcom compiles a bit slower than BC, so the speed difference is still
>about a factor of two.  IMHO, this difference is not enough to justify
>the massive waste of money to buy Watcom, but that's a matter of
>opinion.

Well, that friend just forms his oppinions without very many facts, and he
hasn't exactly put any money into getting Watcom either (bad boy). But I
myself don't like to perform illegal acts like that, and besides, I get my
upgrades much more easy than he does (if he even gets them at all).

I don't think that the compile-time-diffrence is enough to switch to Watcom
either, I think that DJGPP is better in many ways, since it's easier to get
support, and to affect the product. You can get the sources and fix bugs
yourself if you have to (not very likely though), and it's ofcourse free,
and I strongly discourage pirating of such software.


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