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Where can I download a free C compiler for Windows?

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Although the TCC compiler itself is exceptionally fast and produces very small executables, there is an inherent trade off between this reduction in space and program performance. Rough benchmarks of a recursive Fibonacci algorithm on a 1.8Ghz Intel Centrino laptop with 512MB RAM yields a noticeable difference in results between Microsoft Visual C++ compiler 13.10.3052 and TCC. To calculate the 49th Fibonacci number, it took TCC approximately 110 seconds whereas it took VC++ approximately 93 seconds.

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