[zeromq-dev] MSVC vs. MinGW build

[Holger Hoffstätte]

Pavol Malosek wrote:
> We gave a try to MinGW with gcc 4.3.2 (tdm-mingw-1.812.0-f1.exe from
> http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/)
> Here are the results:
> 
> latency test 100000 msgs, 1B
> throughput test 10000000 msgs, 1B
> 
> MinGW (gcc 3.4.5)
> latency: 118.52 us
> throughput: 2.4 Mmsg/s
> 
> MinGW (gcc 4.3.2)
> latency: 113.6 us
> throughput: 2.6 Mmsg/s

Incredible! There's still a microsecond left to shave off compared to the
previous MSVS result, but considering that the throughput is higher I
think we can let it slide for now.. ;-)

cheers
Holger