Author: Don Dailey
Date: 08:25:32 06/05/98
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On June 05, 1998 at 03:12:52, Michael Kalisz wrote: >On June 04, 1998 at 08:46:15, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > >>On June 04, 1998 at 04:22:04, Michael Kalisz wrote: >>> >>>B.T.W For pentium check www.goof.com which performs 10%-15%better then >>>VC++ >>>on my P90 when running linux. >> >> >>Is the pgcc even better than VC++? You don't mean 10%-15% better than >>gcc? >> >>What about other commercial compilers for linux? I know that The >>Portland Group <http://www.pgroup.com/> has compilers for linux-x86 and >>solars-x86. Does anyone know how they perform compared to gcc, pgcc or >>VC? > >I tried the pgroup compiler for a 15 day evaluation period. >(Just send them a mail and they will give you a trial license) > >I noticed that in floating point calculations it produced better code >but when using integer I did not mannage to make it perform better then >the pentium optimized egcs compiler. (www.goof.com) > >So crafty ran with the same performance as with gcc. > >But there are alot of compiler switches to the pgroup compiler so >it would be interesting if with the right switches it would >outperform gcc or not. >(I just did not have the time to play enough with it) > > >Regards > >Michael I was told the latest gcc 2.8.? had much improved floating point code and also was also an improvement on non floating point code, better omtimizations. I haven't verified this myself. - Don
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