Compiler speed test results

[Josh]

Here's some results I found. I might not have found all the MSVC optimization options, but here's what I got to the best of my knowledge. It's surprising MSVC debug mode compiles faster than release? That might indicate additional optimization settings I missed.

 

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GCC, no optimization - 0:12

MSVC, no optimization, release - 2:46

MSVC, no optimization, debug - 1:01

[Roland]

So GCC is roughly about 20 times faster than MSVC.

Interesting result. I have not used the GCC compiler

for some years but in old days GCC used to be slower.

Things seems to have changed then.

[Josh]

The faster debug compile makes me tend to think there are some optimizations I did not turn off. Normally I would expect the debug build to be slower. Perhaps the debug build turns off all optimization, because it assumes you are just testing?

[Rick]

In all honesty, for me, the compile time means very little since VS offers a much better IDE than I've seen any other that allows the use of GCC, and that speeds up development.

[Canardia]

Some people use VC++ IDE only as text editor because it has quite nice search features. So you can use VC++ IDE for GCC also. You can then make a compile button which runs g++.exe or a mingw32-make.exe.

[Roland]

For those who wants to use GCC and still have an nice open source IDE you can have a look at CodeBlocks

[Canardia]

Then also CodeLite is a nice IDE for gcc and other compilers:

http://www.codelite.org/

I like the big tooltip popup where you can have multiple lines of documentation and maybe even a short example and also links.

[Roland]

Then also CodeLite is a nice IDE for gcc and other compilers:

http://www.codelite.org/

I like the big tooltip popup where you can have multiple lines of documentation and maybe even a short example and also links.

Yes. That one looks cool. Didn't know about it. Thanks

[kennar]

Yes. That one looks cool. Didn't know about it. Thanks

 

In addition to Vim, what I use, and Codeblocks you may find U++ (http://www.ultimatepp.org/) interesting.