I see all these posts where everyone says get the enterprise edition. What is wrong with standard, it is loads cheaper. I am new so i really dont know. If anyone could tell me the difference and also if there is anything wrong with using the standard edition i would appreciate it.

I think the main difference is liscencing. I think standard doesn''t allow distrobution, or something like that. I jsut use GCC so I''m not sure.

You can distribute programs built with standard, one major difference is the compiler. Enterprise has an optimizing compiler, standard does not.

Wow, lot to pay for the optimizing compiler. How much does it speed code up?

That really depends upon what you code is doing, whether it is using MFC or ATL, and a few other factors.

The general increase is typically around 7% but I have seen a few instances of much higher numbers (closer to 30%), but that is rare.

Get Professional edition, it has an optimizing complier and it’s a lot cheaper (if you are a student you can get it from journeyED
for about $100)

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