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posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 29.02.2008, 09:02
(edited by Japheth on 29.02.2008, 09:22)

> CC386. Also, remember that CC386 is only like a 2 MB download (DOS
> version) vs. much more required for other DOS compilers. And it uses a
> custom NASM as a backend. Granted, you could make a lite OpenWatcom
> that would only be like 4 MB compressed (11 MB unpacked), and yes,
> OpenWatcom probably optimizes better
Besides speed (which is not that important IMO) is that OW supports C++. Also, they improved the CRT concerning size. A simple 32bit DOS "hello world" binary with OW is now just 17 kB.

> Still,
> DJGPP/GCC 4.2.3 is slightly better at optimizing than OpenWatcom even (but
> requires more memory to compile, at least with -O2).
DGPJJ's disadvantage is its non-zerobased memory model. And the binaries are bloated. And WD is better than GDB. I prefer OW. IMO since OW exists there's no reason anymore to use DGPJJ at all.

> GRDB, ironically, needs TASM (but a MASM makefile is also included) to
> reassemble. OpenWatcom's WASM will assemble some (but definitely not all)
> of the source files for GRDB. I tried "for fun" with WASM
> recently,
> and wasn't too disappointed that it didn't work.
WASM is a toy. I thought you know that. :-D (Still better than ASS of course)

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