Message-Id: <199708170030.KAA06165@rabble.uow.edu.au> Subject: Re: How fast is DJGPP? To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 10:30:14 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: <33F4D499.52C15699@spectra.net> from Tom Novelli at "Aug 15, 97 06:13:45 pm" From: *** Brett *** MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk > > I don't know much about current commercial compilers.. I hear Visual C++ > 5.0 is the fastest Windows compiler, because Microsoft keeps secrets > from the other companies. That would be typical, wouldn't it... > I've also heard Watcom runs faster than DJGPP > on Pentiums, but every game I've seen that uses it has alot of quirks.. > Bear in mind that iD dumped Watcom (in DooM) to use DJGPP in Quake, which is only meant to run on a Pentium. The only reason that they would do this is that DJGPP is better, I mean they'd already paid for Watcom, so they wouldn't care about DJGPP being free... and it isn't like the money would matter to them anymore anyway :) Brett -- Brett Porter bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au (preferred) --- blp01 AT uow DOT edu DOT au http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/3596 - Humor Page http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/7483 - Programming page http://rabble.uow.edu.au/people/bporter - Mysterious page - hidden links ;)