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Subject: Re: Linux x Windows performance in chess programs

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 09:22:57 11/14/02

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For platforms on which Windows NT (2k, XP, you name it) is supported we ship
native tools. For other platforms we ship cross-compiler running on Windows/x86.

Thanks,
Eugene

On November 14, 2002 at 02:48:28, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>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.
>
>What do you mean with "available for platform XYZ"? Under what OS? Or do you
>mean it can be used as a cross-compiler but the compiler itself will run only
>under Windows?
>
>
>>Still less platforms than GCC, but more than enough.
>
>Depends on what platform you have. ;)
>
>Sargon



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