I attended the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 / Visual Studio .net 2003 Launch event (hey it was right next door, and it was free!). Mostly marketing hype, but the last session covered some great features in VC++ 2003:
“98%” C++ ISO compliant (now supports template partial specialization, compiles boost, loki and blitz++ out of the box…)
whole-program optimization, can inline across modules
better intellisense, faster dynamic help, faster startup, generate html from comments
support for Windows Forms via Forms Designer – includes docking and auto-resizing layout capabilities – but generated code is “managed” (allocations are done on the .net garbage collected heap hrmmm…) – you can derive forms!
/G7 optimization switch for P4/Athlon, “5-15% improvement”
/GS security switch to check for buffer overflows and exception table hacking
/arch:SSE/SSE2 for improved (“2-3%”) floating-point performance
Time to break it out…
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