On 10/15/2012 05:05, Peter Kümmel wrote: > I have an application which allocates lot of memory > and on Windows XP the mingw build (rubenvb 4.7.2) > is much worse than a msvc2010 build. >
Have you tried finding out which part of the application is taking up the memory? > I assume this has to do with the C runtime library > used by mingw which is from 1998 (Visual Studio 6), > when GBs were only found on hard disks. > Why would you think this? > Is it possible to use a newer C runtime library for mingw? > Sure, there are a few specs file mods for GCC about, you can search mingw-users from the mingw.org mailing list for details. Do note however that mingw* is very much built around MSVCRT.DLL, so you may encounter some bugs if you switch from the default. You may need to rebuild GCC and all your libraries.
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