Re: Translating Euphoria Apps -- Which compiler do you use?
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Aug 17, 2008
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This is good news. I didn't go to the point of porting Eu. They were C benchmarks mainly from the great computer language shootout. It's possible the latest version of MinGW addresses some of the speed issues or that the speed issues show up mainly in loops, computations, recursive calling. The slowdown of MinGW is very well documented all over the net but I know for those reasons they have been working on it as well.
I'm using a really old version of Cygwin + MinGW runtime (really just a set of header and linker files).
gcc (GCC) 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.124) Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Also, here is the prebuilt binary:
http://linuxbuddhist.net:8081/upload/192.168.249.17-exu.exe
So, over all, what does this mean? Is MinGW easier to install or more popular than OpenWatcom? It seems it may be easier to maintain than OpenWatcom as MinGW is simply GCC for windows and we already have to maintain GCC for Linux/FreeBSD/OS X.
My intuitive guess is that MinGW is more common that OpenWatcom because it has been FOSS for longer.
As for which is easier to install, Cygwin at least has a GUI installer like OpenWatcom does. I'm sure MinGW does as well.
Maybe we should add MinGW to the mix and see what happens?
Jeremy
I can have this in by tonight (EDT) if there are no objections.
