From:	qed AT chromatic DOT com (Paul Hsieh)
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Subject:	Re: The numer 1 compiler, DJGPP or MSVC Here's a good rating comparision
Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:29:22 -0700
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On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:19:53 -0400, sumatose AT NOSPAM DOT usa DOT net 
(sumatose AT NOSPAM DOT usa DOT net) said:
> Russ, you say that Quake II is made with VC++.  Given that we 
> both know ID has use Watcom and could use it very well for OpenGL 
> programming, then Herman must be saying that ID Software people 
> are idiots.  Hey, maybe GLQuake could run on a 386 if it used 
> Watcom? 8-)

Why do people constantly follow this incorrect line of reasoning?  Quake 
II, like Quake and DOOM before it, is bottlenecked behind graphics 
performance which is dealt with entirely in assembly language.  In DOOM 
they were two very small assembly routines, in Quake it was significantly 
more.  Their choice of C compiler was dictated by factors *other* than 
compiler code generation performance, because they are never caught 
behind compiler bottlenecks in the first place!

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Paul Hsieh
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