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Man you are a cynical old bugger, and if it wasn't so accurate it would be amusing (this from another cynical old bugger).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The line between cynicism and realism is often blurry.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"Captain wake up, something has happened!"
Oh the dramaturgy! 
Of course "something" happened, "something" is happening all the time.
It'd better be "something" of some relevance though, for you c**t to wake me
up for.
I think I'm going to reuse this in an upcoming major incident report!
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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You always this crabby when you wake up?
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No, usually I'm not that kind, I don't quite know what, but I guess "something" must have happened! 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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So today I started to work on some C++ code, just to find that any C++ compiler beats the one comes with Visual Studio...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Why? I would completely understand if you had said this a decade ago, but it's not so bad now..
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Worse than bad... Comparing to gcc or icc...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: gcc or icc
The benefit to most people that live on MS products solely is, they don't know of anything else. So ignorance is bliss.
Not that I use gcc or icc.
Jeremy Falcon
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Try Clang too while you're at it.
Now not to defend MSVC too much, but the codegen doesn't make as angry as it used to.
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clang is a very fast compiler, but the code it creates not that fast... (again, not first hand experience with that)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You're right.
They should be immensely proud that it only took them ten years to make it "not so bad".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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pictures or it didn't happen!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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How I handle VC++...[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Stop subjecting yourself the repeated pain and disappointments.
Join that VB6 crowd (the unwashed). No more surprises.
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Be careful what you ask for.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Forsooth!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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In what way ? did you forget to build in RELEASE, it is a widely known fact that the DEBUG code is really slow.
Do you have particular instances where it differs that much ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: it is a widely known fact that the DEBUG code is really slow.
Jeremy Falcon
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Not only I used release as base, but also configured a lot of optimizations to gain more speed...
On old 32 bit CPU the result is more than 200%
On newer 32 bit CPU it is about 160%
On 8 core i7 it is still 140%
The problem is that I can not tell the compiler to use the most sophisticated command sets the CPU has and can help my (not really mine, but I'm learning it) code (intensive calculations)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Do you know how well gcc compares to icc, just out of curiosity?
Jeremy Falcon
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I didn't do test of my own with icc, but what I saw from others gcc a bit faster (2%-4%) but not always...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Cool. Just curious. Thanks.
Jeremy Falcon
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In 2012, I did extensive testing with icc. It was consistently faster than other compilers except for a few times when it was a total fail, which made it not worth it. I haven't even bothered to see how C++14/17 compliant it's become since.
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Cool. I remember hearing that too, but since I've never used it, it's nice to hear it from folks that have.
Jeremy Falcon
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