Re: C23 thoughts and opinions

On Sat, 08 Jun 2024 13:09:18 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
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On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 16:58:08 -0500, BGB-Alt wrote:
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I think code generation went in the bulky direction when they started
adding auto-vectorization, and not really any option to be like "Yes,
I want SIMD instructions enabled, but, no, don't autovectorize."
 
Sometimes vectorization makes things faster, sometimes not, but one
thing it does do, is make the generated binaries bigger.

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And MSVC is the compiler that Microsoft use to build Windows itself,
isn’t it?

 
Last time I built NT, it used the command line compiler 'cl.exe', IIRC.
 
Granted that was 1998.

Is that supposed to be an entirely different compiler? I would assume it
was simply a different way of invoking the same basic compiler engine.