Some performance notes

[Cees de Groot]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 07:50:45 -0500, Rob Gayvert <rtg at rochester.rr.com>  
wrote:

> I do a fair amount of work with cygwin and gcc as well, so I'm not  
> partial to any particular tool; I just happened to start with MSVC. But  
> after seeing these numbers, I'll definitely have to switch over to a gcc  
> build.
>
I didn't want to say this, because it's you doing the hard work, but,  
yes... seems like a better idea than trying to get MSC up to speed ;)

Andreas - thanks for the detailed explanation! I was about to set off on a  
wild goose chase around MSC command line switches, you saved me quite some  
time here.