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Subject: Re: Linux x Windows performance in chess programs

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:45:30 11/13/02

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On November 13, 2002 at 14:11:54, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On November 13, 2002 at 13:45:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>> [...] deleted
>>
>>(2) gcc is multi-platform.  It will compile source and produce
>> executables for most any computer architecture on the planet.
>> MSVC is specifically tailored to the intel/amd architectures,
>> which lets the developers spend more time studying the particular
>> target architectures as opposed to having to produce and optimize
>> code for nearly all architectures.
>
>MSVC is also available for IA-64, MIPS, PPC, Alpha (or was until MS stopped
>development of NT on Alpha), ARM (plus Thumb), SuperH, TriCore.
>
>Still less platforms than GCC, but more than enough.
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene


I used it on the alpha of course.  Didn't know about MIPS and PPC.  The last
three are a bit unusual.. :)




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