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Subject: Re: Apple's G3-300MHz chip v.s. Pentium II 400. Integer scores interpre

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:20:52 06/04/98

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On June 04, 1998 at 04:22:04, Michael Kalisz wrote:

>On June 03, 1998 at 16:08:56, Ian Kennedy wrote:
>
>>Incidentally I compared the same pure ANSI C chess code compiled with
>>gcc -O2 running under Red Hat Linux/Alpha. It was 37% *slower* than
>>fully optimized VC++ under NT/Alpha.
>
>You would need an alpha-optimized gcc compiler for that...
>but I do not know it there is one?

gcc does work on the alpha...


>
>I wonder how digital-unix would perform???


probably no different, as msvc (alpha edition) uses the MSVC compiler
front-end, but it still uses the digital alpha compiler "back-end" that
produces and optimizes the code.  So results should be comparable on
either
operating system/compiler..




>
>(Is there any commarcial compiler for Linux on Alpha?)


no, but gcc/egcs/etc work well...

>
>B.T.W For pentium check www.goof.com which performs 10%-15%better then
>VC++
>on my P90 when running linux.

you are not compiling right with msvc then.  Jason Deines and I have
done extensive testing on Crafty... and when you get MSVC 5's options
optimized, it will produce code about 10% faster than GCC, under all
cases.  It just takes a *lot* of playing with the optimizations...


>
>Regards
>
>Michael



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