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Subject:	Re: Why did ID choose DJGPP for Quake?
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Stephen Howe wrote:

> >>Take a look at http://www.geocities.com/set-soft/compila.html
> >>You'll get a big surprise.
>
> I have looked at that. They are using 10.0a, hardly the newest version of
> Watcom C/C++. It would be better to do a comparison using 10.6 or 11.0b. I
> would be interested to know what switches they used.

I have an article from BYTE, they compared 10.0a and 11.0 and both delivers the
almost the same performance.
And they used the best switches they could found. In fact BYTE coded the
benchmarks with Watcom in mind as the DOS compiler because they used the
benchmarks to compare computers.

SET

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