Re: [Chicken-users] Win32 maintainer needed.. Mingw install?

[felix winkelmann]

On 1/11/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:

>  Which happens, but that's about using the Common Language
> Runtime, not generating native code.  I'm a 3D game developer, I want
> native code.

Isn't the CLR code JIT-compiled? (just asking).

>
> I have never encountered Watcom on my various open source food chains.
> I don't claim to have tried all problem domains; rather, my interests
> have been narrowly focused on (1) 3D game development on Windows, (2)
> high performance languages.  Is there some domain where Watcom has
> claims to fame?

Watcom C used to be the C compiler that generated the fastest code (in 16-bit
days). I don't know how well it does today, probably the Intel compiler has
taken the crown.


cheers,
felix