+++Date last modified: 05-Jul-1997 Results of running DSPDTST.EXE in small model on my machine (486 DX/50, Trident SVGA, IBM-PC/DOS 7, running Stacker and Golden Bow's Vcache disk cache) using all compilers currently on hand: Symantec 7.0 Watcom 10.0 ------------ ----------- Times for 5000 iterations: Times for 5000 iterations: puts 30.275 seconds puts 13.352 seconds printf 29.725 seconds printf 12.418 seconds cputs 0.440 seconds cputs 2.198 seconds cprintf 0.604 seconds cprintf 16.868 seconds fputs 1.044 seconds fputs 1.099 seconds fprintf 1.154 seconds fprintf 1.264 seconds Borland 4.5 Microsoft 8.0 (VC++ 1.5) ----------- ------------------------ Times for 5000 iterations: Times for 5000 iterations: puts 13.626 seconds puts 12.912 seconds printf 11.758 seconds printf 30.604 seconds cputs 1.648 seconds cputs 1.429 seconds cprintf 1.758 seconds cprintf 17.143 seconds fputs 1.319 seconds fputs 0.275 seconds fprintf 1.374 seconds fprintf 0.659 seconds Mix Power C 2.2 Zortech 3.0r4 --------------- ------------- Times for 5000 iterations: Times for 5000 iterations: puts 17.033 seconds puts 30.659 seconds puts 30.659 seconds printf 29.451 seconds cputs 16.538 seconds cputs 0.385 seconds cprintf 16.703 seconds cprintf 0.604 seconds fputs 0.165 seconds fputs 0.989 seconds fprintf 0.495 seconds fprintf 1.099 seconds