Hi Sherman, VS2008 has been slowly adopted by C++ developers, because when compared to VS2005 it does not features anything new that is easily visible.
My experience is that if you get the choice between VS2005 and VS2008, go for VS2008. It's more stable in general (the C++ compiler and the C++ standard library feature more bug fixes). Also as you said, VS2008 has the /MP option, which I now use all the time. Tanguy -----Original Message----- From: osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org [mailto:osg-users-boun...@lists.openscenegraph.org] On Behalf Of sherman wilcox Sent: Saturday 04 April 2009 17:30 To: OpenSceneGraph Users Subject: [osg-users] Windows users - VS2008 comments Slightly off-topic for this mailing list but here goes. For the Windows users out there, those of you that are using or know of developers using VS2008 - any comments? Problems, benefits, pros/cons? My project is using VS2005 and has been for a while now but I'm considering switching to VS2008. In my case there's only one reason - the /MP benefit. /MP enables parallel compilation. For multiprocessor or multicore systems it's a real performance increase. I'm not talking about parallel builds of multiple projects but compiling multiple modules in the same project(s) in parallel. On VS2005 /MP is undocumented but works, mostly. It's a tremendous performance boost. However, I've ran into a PDB corruption issue here as of late. Error C2471. Not sure why it's suddenly happening as I've been using /MP for a long while now. I believe Gordon warned me this could happen and it has. I phoned Microsoft about this and they said that /MP is unsupported on VS2005 and I have no recourse but to either not use that feature (no way - too fast) or upgrade to VS2008. So, I may be upgrading. However, there are numerous developers on my project and I want to have a clear understanding of any potential issues before moving forward. I'll be purchasing a copy to test but I'd like to hear from the list. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.or g _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
