Win32 version of XFree86

[Chris Faylor]

On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 12:52:32PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote:
>Certainly getting it all working with GCC first is a more desireable 
>option then, but I would like to be able to build with MSVC and other 
>Win32 compilers because they produce much better code than GCC does 
>(although 2.9.5 may be better now).

I think that recent benchmarks have shown that gcc is at least
approaching MSVC speeds in most regards and surpassing it in a
few areas.

I'm not a gcc engineer, however, and I can't give you complete details.
I can say that the PII optimizations in our Code Fusion product are
rumored to make linux run as much as 5% faster.

That said, however, it may not be too hard to get things compiled with
MSVC.  I would think that the major problems would be environment
related, i.e., how do you handle things like ptys, paths, etc.

-chris