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Subject: Re: How about open weaponry boxing championship?

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 08:17:25 07/16/04

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On July 16, 2004 at 11:06:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 16, 2004 at 06:38:07, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>On July 15, 2004 at 21:00:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On July 15, 2004 at 18:20:48, Peter Berger wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 15, 2004 at 14:50:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>No.  It would be at least 10% faster.  I have the actual comparison numbers from
>>>>>the same version, one run by Eugene using his compiler, one run by me on linux
>>>>>using 64 bit gcc.  Eugene's compiler ate the gcc compiler for lunch.
>>>>
>>>>Before we go into all the other points I missed ;) - what operating system did
>>>>the computer which ran Crafty compiled by Eugene use ? If the answer is Windows
>>>>XP I stand corrected, but that would come as a surprise.
>>>
>>>
>>>Windows XP.  :)
>>>
>>>The O/S has no influence on Crafty's speed.  IE windows XP is no faster or
>>>slower than linux there.  But Microsoft's compiler is far better than GCC.  SO
>>>it wins hands down.
>>
>>Eugene's answer was different :).
>
>Maybe we read different posts.  :)  He mentioned XP64 because you have to have
>that to run the opteron in 64 bit mode, just as we used the Suse AMD64 linux
>release for the same reason...

OK - and that is where my 4.0 is coming from. Had Crafty run on Falcon's PC it
would have been about 4 times slower than on the Quad Opteron. It was exactly
four times slower on Ingo's PC e.g. I tried to explain this in previous posts,
but maybe didn't make myself clear.

Peter



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