Compilers

[Guest muff]

has anyone compared the performance of C++ code compiled with EVC++ to the Thumb/ARM equivalents??

I'm wondering how good the compiler is, and if the extra effort of writing in ARM gives sufficient performance boost to make it worth while

[Guest spacemonkey]

Writing stuff in assembler will always give you a performance boost. (as long as write it well...)

eVC++ comes with an ARM/Thumb assembler, armasm.exe. Check it out. Like with any project, you need to do some profiling and logging to figure out what's slowest cos you don't want to have to rewrite your whole app in assembler.

Other C compilers may provide better/worse/different optimisations on your code but I haven't investigated far enough to figure out how to get these working with the smartphone SDK.