Comment He measured single-threaded compiles?!!! (Score 2) 132
Visual C++ has this handy
A performance benchmark which doesn't turn on the go-fast option is not going to produce meaningful results.
The author also doesn't discuss debug symbols. VC++ generates debug symbols by default, whereas the other compilers do not. Generating builds without symbols is not a reasonable scenario for most builds, so this makes the file size comparisons rather meaningless.