OpenEuphoria

Re: Help Wanted (EUPHORIA source)

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at ?ahoo?com> Jun 07, 2008
• 699 views

Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> Mario Steele wrote:
> > 
> > May I strongly suggest that MinGW be included in the list of compilers for
> > Windows.
> >  We found that using MinGW with Ruby, has definate speed increasements, even
> > over Microsoft Visual Studio.
> 
> Wow! I've only three main apps on Windows in C and in all cases MinGW was
> significantly
> slower, I am speaking of 20-30% slower (than MSVC). I have not benchmarked
> them
> against Watcom as I have only used it in relation to Euphoria.
> 
> --
> Jeremy Cowgar
> <a href="http://jeremy.cowgar.com">http://jeremy.cowgar.com</a>

Regardless of speed, one of the main reasons of using MingW would be to leverage
the commonality it shares with other gcc compilers.

But I ain't doin' it, so good luck to whoever does!

--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.
--John Gall's 15th law of Systemantics.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare

j.