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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 16:40:03 +0200
From: "Dr. András Sólyom" <solyom AT eik DOT bme DOT hu>
Organization: TU Budapest
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Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> I don't want to start another holly war, but ....

....

> 
> I agree with it too, but there are some important things to point, the most sad
> is that M$, Watcom and Intel compilers generates better Pentium code (and even
> better 486 code) than gcc. (Look comparissons in Byte articles, download the
> sources, compile it and make your own comparissons).

and how about comparing the memory that you can use in the programs that are
compiled with those compilers? I routinly use > 100-200 Mbytes of data under
DOS and Linux with DJGPP and 64 Mbytes of RAM. MS, Watcom etc. gives you max.
64 Mbytes virtual memory, while even under DOS with DJGPP and CWSDPMI I can
use more.

	Andras