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Mar 20, 2015 · When I compile a large project (for example, Bitcoin) in both GCC (using MinGW) and in MSVC (using Visual Studio) using comparable optimization settings, the GCC binary is 6 mb and the MSVC binary is 4 mb.
When comparing GCC vs Microsoft Visual C++, the Slant community recommends Microsoft Visual C++ for most people. In the question “What are the easiest to use C++ compilers and IDEs?” Microsoft Visual C++ is ranked 2nd while GCC is ranked 3rd.
Visual C++ is an IDE that is designed to work with the Microsoft C++ compiler. GCC is an open-source compiler and tool collection, not an IDE, though there are many IDEs that can work with it (for example, Code::Blocks and Clion). You can learn C++ using either - there is no best.
MSVC is Microsoft's compiler, GCC is technically the "Gnu Compiler Collection" but the same abbreviation is commonly used to denote the "Gnu C Compiler" and because we're lazy also the "Gnu C++ Compiler".
MSVC is separate from visual studio and you can use it with whatever IDE you want. However, the only official way of installing MSVC is through the visual studio installer. But once it's on your system you can use it the same way you use GCC.
Nov 28, 2018 · so what is the difference between the GCC and MSVC versions of the MXRig Win-64? edit: is there any difference, or is just one takes up slightly less HDD space than the other...
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Jan 16, 2014 · I'm seeing a big difference in performance between code compiled in MSVC (on Windows) and GCC (on Linux) for an Ivy Bridge system. The code does dense matrix multiplication. I'm getting 70% of the peak flops with GCC and only 50% with MSVC.