[Qt-creator] Is MSVC on Windows supported?

[Peter Pearson]

On 06/09/12 03:24, Coda Highland wrote:

> I found it, and it was actually two PDFs:
>
> http://www.agner.org/optimize/optimizing_cpp.pdf
> http://dl.fefe.de/optimizer-isec.pdf
>
> Of note, as of the time these articles were written, only gcc
> performed tail-call optimization and C++ devirtualization, and gcc
> auto-vectorized where MSVC wouldn't.

There's a more modern comparison here, comparing MS 2010, MinGW 4.6.1 
and Intel 12.0:

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/847-1/impact-compilateurs-architectures-cpu-x86-x64.html

Intel generally wins due to their superior maths libraries anyway, but 
some of the AVX and SSE4 vectorizing ICC does is very impressive if you 
look at the resulting asm...

Cheers,
Peter Pearson