Re: [LUG] GCC debug info and some other garbage.

[Nick Kew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Andrew Rogers wrote:

> A friend has compiled his program on both GCC 2.96 and MS Visual C++ (I 
> don't know which release). He claims that Visual C++ gives a two fold 
> speed increase to his program.

Unless your friend has expert understanding of benchmarking,
chances are he's not comparing like with like.  What libraries
do the programs use (certainly different - are they statically
or dynamically linked etc?), what system calls?

Example food for thought: consider the GUI.  X11 is a modular, layered
distributed platform, with builtin networking.  Want to network windoze?
You have to DIY, as evidenced by the fact that products such as VNC
that run GUI apps remotely are so big and klunky.  Naturally I'd expect
a simpleminded GUI to run faster, as evidenced by the comparison of
SunView with X11 until around a decade ago when hardware power made
X11 viable and SunView obsolete.

Of course, see also Simon's comments.

-- 
Nick Kew


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