I really appreciate the info, that clears up a lot of confusion. It would seem from what I have gleaned by searching all over the web that the Icculus build seems to be the most current and active Quake 3 project (unless I'm wrong?), so I think it would benefit me to switch to MinGW to use it.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Angus</b> <<a href="mailto:tim@ngus.net">tim@ngus.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:44:40 -0700 Tim wrote:<br>> On win32, does VC yield more optimized code, or is<br>> that just a rumor?<br><br>If may ever so slightly, because VC is targetted only at x86 and thus<br>can afford to take shortcuts that wouldn't be acceptable in gcc. The
<br>code that is compiled in the MinGW and MSVC builds is for all intents<br>and purposes identical, so there is no performance advantage there.<br><br>> I would be more than happy to use MinGW if there<br>> is no real disadvantage, thanks.
<br><br>Based purely on my own anecdotal testing of 1.32b versus ioq3 compiled<br>with MinGW, there is no measurable difference in terms of framerate, so<br>I don't perceive there to be a disadvantage.<br></blockquote></div>
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