From: Wu Y. <ad...@ne...> - 2002-05-30 03:50:27
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[OT] I share some of the opinions of Andres Rand. Sometimes I am reluctant to upgrade, because I have been used to the older one and the newer one seems always have some "feature" I don't like. Now return to topic. I have two cents. 1) Let's see what options MSVC provides: /GR[-] enable C++ RTTI /GX[-] enable C++ EH (same as /EHsc) /EHs enable synchronous C++ EH /EHa enable asynchronous C++ EH It does provide ways to get rid of things people does not need. 2) Big run-times are not necessary. Borland has a big overhead because of its design. It may not care much about making small executables, though it is possible. I have shown that one could produce an HelloWorld.exe as small as 2560 bytes with MSVC dependent only of USER32.DLL and KERNEL32.DLL. [OT] Users, as well as developers, have rights. Linux's success depends on the enthusiasm of developers, while Microsoft's success depends on its sense of what most users need. Best regards, Wu Yongwei |