Paul Moore wrote: > On 14 April 2010 07:37, Paul Rudin <p...@rudin.co.uk> wrote: >> "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> writes: >> >>> The major difference in the "do it yourself" attitude is that Mac user >>> get a compiler for free, as part of the operating system release, >>> whereas for Windows, they have to pay for it (leaving alone VS Express >>> for the moment). >> JOOI why ignore the express versions of the MS compilers? All (I think) >> MS compilers are available for free in command line versions - it's the >> GUI tools you pay for. > > I believe that the express editions don't include some of the advanced > optimisations (profile guided optimisation rings a bell) which are > used to build the official binaries. So if the binaries were built > using Express Edition, they would be somewhat slower. > > That is just my recollection, however - it may be out of date or wrong. > Paul.
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