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Frank V
Frank V

Reputation: 25429

MFC vs. CLR?

In a visual studio C++ project, would MFC be faster than using the CLR? I'd specificily be using 2008.

Oh and the reason I ask is because I have experience with .NET but not so much with MFC. I understand what MFC is but have never really used it much.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4382

Answers (4)

cnd
cnd

Reputation: 33784

I recommend to use both. I think MFC core and CLR modules is great Application structure.

Upvotes: 2

Nick
Nick

Reputation: 6846

If you're referring to dev time, if you have experience with .NET and the runtime environment requirements are not a concern, you're probably better off doing a CLR project of some sort. MFC has a fairly steep learning curve, and .NET experience is fairly easy to translate cross-language.

If you're talking about runtime speed, MFC (native code) will almost certainly be faster.

Upvotes: 5

shahkalpesh
shahkalpesh

Reputation: 33474

In that case, I can say - work with what you know.
.net (winforms) is not lesser compared to MFC (unless you are doing something that requires platform support).

Upvotes: 2

Aamir
Aamir

Reputation: 15576

If you are talking about a Visual C++ project with /clr enabled, then definitely one without /clr will be faster. However, a Visual C++ project without /clr can be outrun by a Visual C# project in some cases(some cases: not all of them) mainly because of the optimizations that can be done at the CLR layer.

Upvotes: 3

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