Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:41:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: Jan Hubicka 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: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Have you browsed my www pages? Look at: http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka Koules-the game for Svgalib,X11 and OS/2, Xonix-the game for X11 czech documentation for linux index, original 2D computer art and funny 100 years old photos and articles are there!