Quoting Olivier Langlois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not so sure that VCEE is an "upgrade" compare to VC6. If I'm not > mistaken, VCEE doesn't optimize code. No MS compiler after VC6 comes with a > built-in profiler which quite handy in a project such as CS. It definitly is an upgrade. VC6 have, the best of days, a half-broken template support (in reality it's totally broken), fails to optimize certain common operations and in general is an old compiler (the compiler predates the ISO standardization of C++).
The compiler in VCEE is optimizing, and the same compiler that is included in the pro version (and is tody probably the best C++ compiler around, togheter with Comeau) It's true that MS have removed the built-in profiler, however the "Community Edition" of DevPartner profiler works well (better than VC6 profiler in many cases), or you can get a good profiler for some money ;) > > In fact, I have VC6 and VC.NET 2003 installed on my machine and I definitely > prefer VC6. I tried to recompile some of my old projects with VC.NET 2003 > and I have been very disappointed with the result. 2003 version creates > bigger EXE files! So? Was it using same settings? Also, unless you make 4K demos or so i wouldn't care about this.. the question is how fast they run and how well you can utilize C++. > > IMO, their new C++ compilers are bloated with useless language extension and > besides since MS tries to push their new language C# and .NET framework, I > think they stopped trying hard to improve their C++ compilers. > The language extensions is in no way useless, but that is beside the point here ;) MS is constantly improving their compiler and is now imo nr 1 among compilers (MS is also active participant of ISO C++ Standard organ.. where one of their employees have the chair of the board ;) As a CS dev I am happy we're dropping VC6 support.. now we don't have to make ugly (and sometimes limiting for correct compilers) workarounds for VC6 not following standard. -M ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv28&alloc_id845&op=click _______________________________________________ Crystal-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crystal-main Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
