Does anyone have any experience of the speed difference between programs compiled in Visual C++ 6 Standard Edition (which doesn''t perform code optimizations) and the Professional Edition? Particularly in respect to DirectX and D3D. Just wondering whether £400 is a worth-while investment for a hobby-programmer.

I''ve never used VC6.0 standard, but VC6.0 professional with the optimizations turned off tends to produce, well, horribly unoptimized code. Unless you''re pretty good at x86 assembly (especially floating point assembly) and are willing to spend a good chunk of your time rewriting your inner loops, the £400 would be rather well spent.



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Kind of depends on if you can afford to spend the £400 on the professional edition just for the optimize part.

Saying that, if the plan is to create software you hope to sell on (someday in the future) then maybe it is worth it, or maybe closer to that day the investment ??

Thanks for the info, much appreciated. Looks like it''s time to start saving up.

Just passing a bit of info on, for anyone else who has read this thread. If you already own a previous version of Visual C++ (like 4,5,6 standard) then you can get the Visual C++ 6 Pro Upgrade which is half the price (£196) of the full version.

what can''t i do with my academic version of vc++ 6 pro?

What about Enterprise edition, how does it compare??

Enterprise, professional and academic versions are all the same speed. Standard can be up to 3 times slower than the others because it has no code optimiser.

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