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Subject: Re: Question for the Crafty/Compiler experts

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:31:04 02/15/04

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On February 15, 2004 at 16:29:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 15, 2004 at 16:20:48, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On February 15, 2004 at 16:10:55, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On February 15, 2004 at 15:45:02, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>
>>>>My setup:
>>>>
>>>>AMD FX 51
>>>>Windows 2003 Enterprise (64 bit)
>>>>Intel 8.0 Compiler
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Why would compiling Crafty 19.10 be 15% slower when defining /DVC_INLINE_ASM &
>>>>/DUSE_ASSEMBLY?
>>>>
>>>>Has anyone else ever seen that?
>>>
>>>It may mean that the compiler generated better assembly than you did.
>>>
>>>It may also mean that you pulled in the wrong assembly.  Old x86 assembly will
>>>run on the AMD opteron type systems.  It is the new stuff that will really be
>>>snappy.
>>
>>ICC doesn't seem to like Bob's assembly code to start off with.
>>
>
>That is Eugene's code.  It is _specifically_ written for MSVC, not intel/gcc.
>It will not have a prayer of compiling correctly.  Operands are backwards,
>illegal instructions, etc...

Since the AMD chips are backwards compatible, it will run.  Just slowly, since
it does not use the 64 bit instructions.



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