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Subject: Re: some questions about computer chess programs

Author: Roland Pfister

Date: 22:26:33 04/02/98

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On April 02, 1998 at 16:16:53, Amir Ban wrote:

....
>
>This was the first time I've done anything on Win16, and there was the
>consensus that Microsoft compilers are faster, so I initially developed
>on MSVC 1.51. When it was done, I found the performance disappointing.
>After many attempts to improve, without great results, I decided to give
>my old BC3.1 a try in its Win16 mode which I've never used before. It
>was equal to the Microsoft compiler on P5 but 10% faster on P2/P6.
>
>Amir

Have you tried Watcom?

My program runs faster if I optimize for size with Watcom-C than if I
optimze for speed :-)

Chrilly Donninger told that about his early Nimzo2 and so I tried and
got the same results for Patzer.

Roland



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