15 Oct
2013
15 Oct
'13
9:05 p.m.
On 15-10-2013 22:50, Andrey Semashev wrote:
I wanted to ask the community if it is appropriate to raise the default to Windows Vista. The rationale for this is that Vista introduced a lot of useful APIs (in thread synchronization, in particular) and XP is losing its popularity and soon will be completely unsupported by Microsoft. Also, I'm not sure what is the current state of affair, but Microsoft already tried to drop pre-Vista targets in MSVC.
That kinda backfired and VC 2012 and 2013 have an option to compile XP-compatible binaries. What's the concrete advantage of defaulting to Vista? Performance? Olaf