>Regarding performance, there was a quote on Gamasutra last week where Gabe
>Dalbec of DragonBane fame said CodeWarrior code generation was 40% larger
>than gcc.
I have noticed with CW r5.1, that my C++ project now compiles to a much
smaller PRC. Were there changes made to reduce the C++ overhead or is it
just my imagination? A project compiled using C++ and R5 was about 17K and
compiled with R5.1 is now 7K (without any code changes)
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Cloninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: gcc vs anything else
>Sorry for the delay, I'm on the digest these days...
>
>A public patch for the Release 5 tools was made available on our web site
>last week. I encourage you to download and apply it to your tools. There
>are many fixes, the most important of which was the crasher in the post
>linker and the sporadic appearance of odd parts of the IDE in your
programs'
>bitmaps.
>
>Regarding performance, there was a quote on Gamasutra last week where Gabe
>Dalbec of DragonBane fame said CodeWarrior code generation was 40% larger
>than gcc. We looked at Gabe's settings and it turned out that he had an
>option turned on that was bloating his code. After turning the feature
off,
>our code generation and gcc's are pretty much the same.
>
>For those of you who use CodeWarrior, see if you have the "Auto-inline"
>check box turned on in the C/C++ Settings panel. This is a great feature,
>but in certain circumstances it can bloat your code. Since Palm apps are
>sensitive to code bloat, you should turn it off globally and apply it
>manually with pragmas where you want it.
>
>-E
>
>> Date: 6 Apr 1999 21:02:52 -0700
>> From: Ray Rodrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: gcc vs anything else
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to know as well - I am happy with GCC (W95) but see many
>> complaints and problems posted about CodeWarrior.
>>
>> I have a copy of V4 and have just received my V5 free update, but since
>> there seems to be many outstanding issues, many of which it seems are
>> not going to be fixed until V6, I have not bothered to use it. I feel
>> reluctant to part with more money to get fixes when I am happy with GCC.
>>
>> Anyone like to comment ?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ray
>>
>> george williams wrote:
>>
>> > Perhaps a question for hardcore developers:
>> >
>> > I've been using gcc with a minimal emacs dev
>> > environment and it works fine. Are there
>> > any great reasons to move to a prettier dev
>> > solution like MetroWorks?
>> >
>> > gw.
>>
>
>
>
