mangalam at uci.edu (Harry Mangalam) wrote:
>(altho, some would say that GNU is better than commercial quality :); and
>my experience has been (altho not as wide as Don's) that porting system to
>system is easier with gcc than with the 'commercial compilers', if only
>because they share the same code base. gcc's performance seems to be
>about equal or better to the commercial ones as well.
I've used both GNU C and Microsoft Visual C++ and although GNU C was
faster than Microsoft when they only had a 16 bit version, Microsoft
is now faster than GNU C and there debugger is unbelievable. Boy I
wish I had that capability 10 years ago.
Walter Rothe aimania at airmail.net
