Why I still use vc6
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People often accuse those still using VC6 as holdouts, dinosaurs, or too lazy to embrace the new. Well in my case it's none of those. I'm still using VC 6 because Microsoft can't seem to produce a compiler that produces faster binaries!!! Same codebase, same machine: vc6 - Took 0.17346851 seconds or 173.4685 milliseconds vc80 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.54633341 seconds or 546.3334 milliseconds vc80, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.32663722 seconds or 326.6372 milliseconds vc90 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.34099583 seconds or 340.9958 milliseconds vc90, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.33104513 seconds or 331.0451 milliseconds So, after nearly a 10 year wait between the releases of VC 6 (1998) and VC 9 (2007) my program runs twice as slow. Sigh...
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People often accuse those still using VC6 as holdouts, dinosaurs, or too lazy to embrace the new. Well in my case it's none of those. I'm still using VC 6 because Microsoft can't seem to produce a compiler that produces faster binaries!!! Same codebase, same machine: vc6 - Took 0.17346851 seconds or 173.4685 milliseconds vc80 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.54633341 seconds or 546.3334 milliseconds vc80, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.32663722 seconds or 326.6372 milliseconds vc90 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.34099583 seconds or 340.9958 milliseconds vc90, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.33104513 seconds or 331.0451 milliseconds So, after nearly a 10 year wait between the releases of VC 6 (1998) and VC 9 (2007) my program runs twice as slow. Sigh...
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Actually...most VC++ developers here would say that the VC6 compiler, and IDE in general (for the most part) was the best generation of C++ tools MS has ever produced.
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People often accuse those still using VC6 as holdouts, dinosaurs, or too lazy to embrace the new. Well in my case it's none of those. I'm still using VC 6 because Microsoft can't seem to produce a compiler that produces faster binaries!!! Same codebase, same machine: vc6 - Took 0.17346851 seconds or 173.4685 milliseconds vc80 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.54633341 seconds or 546.3334 milliseconds vc80, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.32663722 seconds or 326.6372 milliseconds vc90 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.34099583 seconds or 340.9958 milliseconds vc90, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.33104513 seconds or 331.0451 milliseconds So, after nearly a 10 year wait between the releases of VC 6 (1998) and VC 9 (2007) my program runs twice as slow. Sigh...
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I still use it because at my university, it doesn't store your user settings on every machine you visit, so whenever you start express or something it takes 5 minutes to... to... i don't know, but it takes its sweet time about it. VC6 just starts up, so much better.
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People often accuse those still using VC6 as holdouts, dinosaurs, or too lazy to embrace the new. Well in my case it's none of those. I'm still using VC 6 because Microsoft can't seem to produce a compiler that produces faster binaries!!! Same codebase, same machine: vc6 - Took 0.17346851 seconds or 173.4685 milliseconds vc80 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.54633341 seconds or 546.3334 milliseconds vc80, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.32663722 seconds or 326.6372 milliseconds vc90 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.34099583 seconds or 340.9958 milliseconds vc90, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.33104513 seconds or 331.0451 milliseconds So, after nearly a 10 year wait between the releases of VC 6 (1998) and VC 9 (2007) my program runs twice as slow. Sigh...
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Sad really, but I completely agree with you. Every new "technology" that comes along seems to be nothing but a new layer in the ever-growing layer-cake of software technologies. Everything just keeps getting slower and slower, even though we have vastly supperior processors and processing capabilities. As far as I'm concerned, the VC6 IDE was the best C++ IDE there has ever been. The compiler lacked some standard compliance features that were missed, but all-in-all a great combination. I regret that I can no longer use it and am forced to use VS 2005 (still lots of C++, but also C# and VB.NET).
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Sad really, but I completely agree with you. Every new "technology" that comes along seems to be nothing but a new layer in the ever-growing layer-cake of software technologies. Everything just keeps getting slower and slower, even though we have vastly supperior processors and processing capabilities. As far as I'm concerned, the VC6 IDE was the best C++ IDE there has ever been. The compiler lacked some standard compliance features that were missed, but all-in-all a great combination. I regret that I can no longer use it and am forced to use VS 2005 (still lots of C++, but also C# and VB.NET).
I'm with you on the Visual C++ 6.0 IDE. However, on the compiler, I did notice my benchmarks for VC++ 2003 compiler for the some code is usually quite a bit faster in benchmarks. But in the end, my favorite still is the Visual C++ 6.0 environment overall. I hope they keep their promise that "10 will be the new 6".
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People often accuse those still using VC6 as holdouts, dinosaurs, or too lazy to embrace the new. Well in my case it's none of those. I'm still using VC 6 because Microsoft can't seem to produce a compiler that produces faster binaries!!! Same codebase, same machine: vc6 - Took 0.17346851 seconds or 173.4685 milliseconds vc80 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.54633341 seconds or 546.3334 milliseconds vc80, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.32663722 seconds or 326.6372 milliseconds vc90 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.34099583 seconds or 340.9958 milliseconds vc90, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.33104513 seconds or 331.0451 milliseconds So, after nearly a 10 year wait between the releases of VC 6 (1998) and VC 9 (2007) my program runs twice as slow. Sigh...
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What sort of processing was this? For numerical stuff I've found VC8 pretty good compared to VC6. If it is text processing you could slow down with the default unicode settings in the later compilers.
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People often accuse those still using VC6 as holdouts, dinosaurs, or too lazy to embrace the new. Well in my case it's none of those. I'm still using VC 6 because Microsoft can't seem to produce a compiler that produces faster binaries!!! Same codebase, same machine: vc6 - Took 0.17346851 seconds or 173.4685 milliseconds vc80 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.54633341 seconds or 546.3334 milliseconds vc80, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.32663722 seconds or 326.6372 milliseconds vc90 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.34099583 seconds or 340.9958 milliseconds vc90, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.33104513 seconds or 331.0451 milliseconds So, after nearly a 10 year wait between the releases of VC 6 (1998) and VC 9 (2007) my program runs twice as slow. Sigh...
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Jim Crafton wrote:
Microsoft can't seem to produce a compiler
which is why we use Intel. :-D :-D
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Jim Crafton wrote:
Microsoft can't seem to produce a compiler
which is why we use Intel. :-D :-D
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
:mad: You beat me to the comment :)
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Actually...most VC++ developers here would say that the VC6 compiler, and IDE in general (for the most part) was the best generation of C++ tools MS has ever produced.
Absolutely. Not just most, but *all* the VC++ developers would say that. :)
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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I'm with you on the Visual C++ 6.0 IDE. However, on the compiler, I did notice my benchmarks for VC++ 2003 compiler for the some code is usually quite a bit faster in benchmarks. But in the end, my favorite still is the Visual C++ 6.0 environment overall. I hope they keep their promise that "10 will be the new 6".
bob16972 wrote:
I hope they keep their promise that "10 will be the new 6".
A lot of Visual C++ developers waiting for the release of 10. :)
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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Absolutely. Not just most, but *all* the VC++ developers would say that. :)
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
Well, I've been out of the loop regarding C++ for at least the last 2 years (more like 3 now), but I definitely know that the C++ compiler in VS2005 caught more than 20 errors in code that I wrote 6 years ago, and VC6 had no problems with it. What's more, when I ran the program after compiling it in VC2005, in resulted in an exception, which I later found to be a buffer overflow. When, however, compiled by VC6, no errors occurred and program executed just fine. Maybe I didnt find some configurations in VC6, but the newer compilers definitely do catch more errors, if nothing else.
"impossible" is just an opinion.
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Well, I've been out of the loop regarding C++ for at least the last 2 years (more like 3 now), but I definitely know that the C++ compiler in VS2005 caught more than 20 errors in code that I wrote 6 years ago, and VC6 had no problems with it. What's more, when I ran the program after compiling it in VC2005, in resulted in an exception, which I later found to be a buffer overflow. When, however, compiled by VC6, no errors occurred and program executed just fine. Maybe I didnt find some configurations in VC6, but the newer compilers definitely do catch more errors, if nothing else.
"impossible" is just an opinion.
The VC6 compiler, is kinda sucker_ish_ at times. But the IDE rocks. Best usage of screen real estate and is faster. I've always loved it. :)
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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People often accuse those still using VC6 as holdouts, dinosaurs, or too lazy to embrace the new. Well in my case it's none of those. I'm still using VC 6 because Microsoft can't seem to produce a compiler that produces faster binaries!!! Same codebase, same machine: vc6 - Took 0.17346851 seconds or 173.4685 milliseconds vc80 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.54633341 seconds or 546.3334 milliseconds vc80, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.32663722 seconds or 326.6372 milliseconds vc90 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.34099583 seconds or 340.9958 milliseconds vc90, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.33104513 seconds or 331.0451 milliseconds So, after nearly a 10 year wait between the releases of VC 6 (1998) and VC 9 (2007) my program runs twice as slow. Sigh...
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People often accuse those still using VC6 as holdouts, dinosaurs, or too lazy to embrace the new. Well in my case it's none of those. I'm still using VC 6 because Microsoft can't seem to produce a compiler that produces faster binaries!!! Same codebase, same machine: vc6 - Took 0.17346851 seconds or 173.4685 milliseconds vc80 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.54633341 seconds or 546.3334 milliseconds vc80, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.32663722 seconds or 326.6372 milliseconds vc90 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.34099583 seconds or 340.9958 milliseconds vc90, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.33104513 seconds or 331.0451 milliseconds So, after nearly a 10 year wait between the releases of VC 6 (1998) and VC 9 (2007) my program runs twice as slow. Sigh...
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I'm still dumbfounded that my .NET hello world app consumes 18MB of ram!! :wtf:
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The VC6 compiler, is kinda sucker_ish_ at times. But the IDE rocks. Best usage of screen real estate and is faster. I've always loved it. :)
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
very true. just saying that its got its problems. and yeah, the IDE was the best.
"impossible" is just an opinion.
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People often accuse those still using VC6 as holdouts, dinosaurs, or too lazy to embrace the new. Well in my case it's none of those. I'm still using VC 6 because Microsoft can't seem to produce a compiler that produces faster binaries!!! Same codebase, same machine: vc6 - Took 0.17346851 seconds or 173.4685 milliseconds vc80 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.54633341 seconds or 546.3334 milliseconds vc80, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.32663722 seconds or 326.6372 milliseconds vc90 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.34099583 seconds or 340.9958 milliseconds vc90, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.33104513 seconds or 331.0451 milliseconds So, after nearly a 10 year wait between the releases of VC 6 (1998) and VC 9 (2007) my program runs twice as slow. Sigh...
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People often accuse those still using VC6 as holdouts, dinosaurs, or too lazy to embrace the new. Well in my case it's none of those. I'm still using VC 6 because Microsoft can't seem to produce a compiler that produces faster binaries!!! Same codebase, same machine: vc6 - Took 0.17346851 seconds or 173.4685 milliseconds vc80 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.54633341 seconds or 546.3334 milliseconds vc80, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.32663722 seconds or 326.6372 milliseconds vc90 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.34099583 seconds or 340.9958 milliseconds vc90, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.33104513 seconds or 331.0451 milliseconds So, after nearly a 10 year wait between the releases of VC 6 (1998) and VC 9 (2007) my program runs twice as slow. Sigh...
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It's VC6's 10 year anniversary this year. It's in the vc98 folder, isn't it? ;)
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Actually...most VC++ developers here would say that the VC6 compiler, and IDE in general (for the most part) was the best generation of C++ tools MS has ever produced.
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People often accuse those still using VC6 as holdouts, dinosaurs, or too lazy to embrace the new. Well in my case it's none of those. I'm still using VC 6 because Microsoft can't seem to produce a compiler that produces faster binaries!!! Same codebase, same machine: vc6 - Took 0.17346851 seconds or 173.4685 milliseconds vc80 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.54633341 seconds or 546.3334 milliseconds vc80, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.32663722 seconds or 326.6372 milliseconds vc90 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.34099583 seconds or 340.9958 milliseconds vc90, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.33104513 seconds or 331.0451 milliseconds So, after nearly a 10 year wait between the releases of VC 6 (1998) and VC 9 (2007) my program runs twice as slow. Sigh...
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I don't really write complex C++ applications, so I might be wrong, but newer Microsoft C++ compilers have a ton of new security checks active by default (arrays, string, automatic linking to safe functions instead of default ones, NX data, etc.). That might explain at least some part of the slow performance. If you ask me, I prefer more security and a slower application myself, but I know the customer might not agree on this. :-D
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People often accuse those still using VC6 as holdouts, dinosaurs, or too lazy to embrace the new. Well in my case it's none of those. I'm still using VC 6 because Microsoft can't seem to produce a compiler that produces faster binaries!!! Same codebase, same machine: vc6 - Took 0.17346851 seconds or 173.4685 milliseconds vc80 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.54633341 seconds or 546.3334 milliseconds vc80, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.32663722 seconds or 326.6372 milliseconds vc90 binaries default optimization settings Took 0.34099583 seconds or 340.9958 milliseconds vc90, turned on favor speed optimization settings Took 0.33104513 seconds or 331.0451 milliseconds So, after nearly a 10 year wait between the releases of VC 6 (1998) and VC 9 (2007) my program runs twice as slow. Sigh...
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