From: qballlives AT aol DOT com (QBallLives)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: WATCOM or DJGPP
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Date: 12 May 1998 22:47:47 GMT
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>I am trying to make a 3d engine which needs bottleneck speed. Which
>compiler would be better (WATCOM c++ 11.0 or DJGPP 2.8). I read somewhere
>that DJGPP and WATCOM are almost the same in optimization( except for
>pentium optimizations which PCGPC took care of). Just want to
>make sure if that's true.Thanks in advance.
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Bottleneck speed? hehe.. .just kidding...

I've not made anything with watcom... but I have seen demos that edge out the
same code built with djgpp, by a little anyways.... but then again... neither
was using all the compiler optimizations they could be....

djgpp is free though... 

Good luck!


Jim the loiterer
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