Re: [Audacity-devel] Final release built with vc8? (seems to generate faster object code)

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

Lynn Allan wrote:

>>I don't think there's been a lot of Windows testing of 1.3.0rc's,
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>>I'm hesitant to release a build based on a system that's barely
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>>-Vaughan
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>Good point about vc8 not being released for that long ... wait at
>least until a service pack is released ...and I may be mistaken about
>whether it geneates better/faster executables.
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>D. Knuth may have said something to the effect: A program can be made
>arbitrarily fast if you relax the requirement of correctness. <g>
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Good quote. I'm all for getting real numbers on executable speed, and 
think Benchmark is the place to do it. And now we can tie in Batch 
processing for some real exercise.

-Vaughan