Sender: root AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <387098AB.97CDE287@inti.gov.ar> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 09:40:11 -0300 From: salvador Organization: INTI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.38 i686) X-Accept-Language: es-AR, en, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Why did ID choose DJGPP for Quake? References: <94622644001 AT out DOT newmail DOT net> <386A476B DOT C5F9209A AT inti DOT gov DOT ar> <84gsav$bfh$3 AT lure DOT pipex DOT net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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 -- Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET). (Electronics Engineer) Visit my home page: http://welcome.to/SetSoft or http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/ Alternative e-mail: set-soft AT usa DOT net set AT computer DOT org set AT ieee DOT org set-soft AT bigfoot DOT com Address: Curapaligue 2124, Caseros, 3 de Febrero Buenos Aires, (1678), ARGENTINA Phone: +(5411) 4759 0013