>PCs running Windows emits Microsoft visual C code
>because that's the most solid, well used, and
>supported compiler for that platform.

I have heard of people moving from Visual C to Intel C compilers for 
Windows, and having both speed improvements and less strange problems in the 
code. The newest Microsoft compilers may be better, but there was a stage 
where they did have strange problems apparently - I did only hear about them 
third hand. 

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