When writing the article about performance improvments I originally plant to write a bit more about different compilers and perhaps do create kinda statistics. Finally I didn’t do it ’cause it would have been an overkill for the post.

During preparatory research about different compiler I came by KAI C++ compiler, its name amused me a lot

The project-page says:

The powerful features of KAI C++ will make programmers more efficient. The advanced optimizations allow programmers to take full advantage of object-oriented design and software reuse without worrying about performance, because KAI C++ makes objects almost as efficient as hand-coded C. Programmers will spend less time trying to correct performance problems, and instead deliver code that is intuitive and easy to maintain.

Afterwards I tried to collect some information about KAI:

• According to the copyright (says 1996-1999) the compiler seems to be an older one.
• Besides the project page and user’s guide it has a website www.kai.com that forwards to Intel website.
• It’s based on linux standards and owns a manage.
• It’s not very famous ’cause I wasn’t able to collect as much information as I’d liked to.
• It’s shareware - donno what a licence costs but they promise you comprehensive and extremely responsive customer support

In conclusion I can say that I’m definitely not interested in KAI C++ compiler. I’m not pretty sure how famous, professional or handy it is, additionally it being shareware makes it totally charmless for me to test it.