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Subject: Re: Company politics - intel c++ for computerchess sucks at K7

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:20:56 05/09/02

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On May 09, 2002 at 23:11:22, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 09, 2002 at 22:24:15, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On May 09, 2002 at 10:27:34, Frank Phillips wrote:
>>
>>>Intel Linux compiler version 6 is faster (about 5%) than Intel version 5 for me,
>>>on a K7 1.4GHz (non XP) - Mandrake 8.2 with icc -O3 -ipo -prof_use
>>
>>and if you try on windows intel c++ 5.0.1 next:
>>  CFLAGS    = -O3 -G6 -Qaxi -Qxi -Gr -Qprof_genx
>
>You left out this step:
>Then run your program quite a while.  I like perft, then an EPD test suite and
>then some games.

I should mention that if programs had an 'auto' mode where they play against
themselves, they can do very well with this (and it also has tremendous value
for analysis).

>>then delete object files and try again:
>> CFLAGS    = -O3 -G6 -Qaxi -Qxi -Gr -Qprof_use
>
>I think K7 is OK for -G7 instruction mix flag, isn't it?



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