On: Rejuvenating the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler

[simfoo]

I hope Microsoft never decides to ditch their compiler and use something existing like Clang. I may have had headaches due to Microsoft incompatibilities before, but having a real alternative (or even three, MinGW still works fine) is great.

That said I applaud their decision to fix their compiler architecture problems!

[claudius → simfoo]

There is also the Intel compiler (a bit pricy, but comes with enough bells and whistles that for anything performance-related it is easily worth the money). At least in my experience, its code is a couple percent faster than GCC on modern Intel CPUs. Diagnostics are rather horrible, though.

[azakai → claudius]

I believe it has switched to use clang as its frontend, though, so it's not a fully independent alternative anymore.

[nickpsecurity → simfoo]

It's good for detecting and working around bugs if nothing else. That's one of reasons OpenBSD development uses so many different pieces of hardware.