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Rob Somerville wrote:

> any chance VC6.0 is linking against optimized libraries? I had same problem
> with Sunsoft SPARC compilers vs. EGCS, but found the issue was Special libraries that
> Sunsoft compilers used for certain optimization settings ( -fast )
>
> -bob

I bet they do! For example on PPC machines you can link with libmoto, provided by
motorola which is a substitute for standard C math and string functions, the thing is
hand-optimized assembly code, on PPC Linux this gives at least 2X improvement in
nbench.  Maybe Intel has  something like that on their site? Check out:
http://www.mot.com/SPS/PowerPC/library/fact_sheet/libmoto_ts.html