[C++-sig] Re: OT: VC6 -> VC7

[Tim Peters]

[Brett Calcott]
> Thanks for responding Tim. I was confused as I came across this:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/display.asp?subid=16&site=11511
>
> It is headed "Microsoft Visual C++T.NET Standard 2003", and lists as one
> of the benefits:
>
> "Create Highly Tuned Unmanaged Windows-based Applications and Components
> Write and compile unmanaged x86 code. Speed up your application or
> reduce its size with optimization options for a range of processors,
> including Whole Program Optimization, and support for Streaming SIMD
> Extensions (SSE) and Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2) instruction
> sets."
>
> I had another look, and found a second page:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/display.asp?site=11511&subid=16&pg=2
>
> There is another page headed "Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Standard" (no
> 2003), which does not list these benefits.
>
> Could it be that this is some new release which includes optimisation.
>
> Or just an advertising mistake...

Very interesting!  A bizarre other possibility is that MS loves New Zealand
so much that they're giving you a better product there <wink>.

PythonLabs has a .NET Standard C++ contributed by a user who wanted us to
move Python to VC7, so I know for certain that at least the US version does
not support optimization (you get a warning msg saying so if you pass an
optimization option to the compiler, and a Python built with it runs 3-4x
slower than under VC6 Pro with optimization; people who have .NET Studio Pro
with optimization have reported mildly smaller and faster Python executables
than under VC6 Pro).