On 07/09/13 10:50 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
Watcom C, reputed to be one of the best commercial compilers ever. With the Phar Lap DOS Extender, which should bring back some memories (*shudder*). There were rumors that porting VFP from Watcom to Microsoft C revealed some real performance issues in the Microsoft C runtime packages and compiler optimizations, addressed partially in MS C and in rewriting some portions of Fox in assembler
We were using Watcom C on a bit project around 1986, and it worked just great. Our client decreed that we change to Microsoft to 'standardize'. It was much more cumbersome to develop in, and as you say the performance suffered. But we were standard!
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