Reply 20 of 43, by keenmaster486
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I did a quick and dirty comparison between Microsoft Quick C and Open Watcom.
Running some nested for loops, totaling 1,000,000 loops, both executables took 9 seconds on my test machine. An interesting result given that the same program executes with wildly different speeds on various BASIC compilers (MS Quick Basic, Power Basic, FreeBasic, QB 7.1 PDS, with FB being by far the fastest by orders of magnitude).
The executable sizes were a different story, however - the Open Watcom exe was a couple of kilobytes. The MSQC executable was, I think, about 18K or thereabouts. This is compiling the same exact program and include stdlib, stdio, and dos.h.
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