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Speed Test 2: Comparing C++ Compilers On WIndows
Nerval's Lobster writes "In a previous posting, developer and programmer Jeff Cogswell compared a few C++ compilers on Linux. Now he's going to perform a similar set of tests for Windows. "Like all things Windows, it can get costly doing C++ development in this environment," he writes. "However, there are a couple notable exceptions" such as free and open-source cygwin, mingW, Express Versions of Visual Studio, and Embacadero. He also matched up the Intel C++ Compiler, Microsoft C++ Compiler, and the Embarcadero C++ 6.70 Compiler. He found some interesting things — for example, Intel's compiler is pretty fast, but its annoying habit of occasionally "calling home" to check licensing information kept throwing off the rests. Read on to see how the compilers matched up in his testing."
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Forget C++11 - switch to D. No, I can't do it either, but I can dream. C++11, for all that it has some nice features, continues the endless quest to make C++ ever more baroque, and to give it a syntax that makes the result of an obfuscated code contest look the same as any other code. It can be done so much more cleanly. In fact Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu already have.
One of the interesting things about D is that both Bright and Alexandrescu are serious C++ experts. I don't think Bright decided to implement "C++ done right" because he didn't understand the features and nuances of C++.