Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 18:04:51 08/12/04
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On August 12, 2004 at 17:12:38, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On August 12, 2004 at 16:19:06, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On August 12, 2004 at 16:11:04, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >> >>>A good C++ program cannot run faster than a good C program doing same thing. >>>Just like a good C program cannot run faster than a good Assembly program doing >>>same thing. >> >>Theoretically true. Practically false. > >For computer chess: true. > >anthony So you're telling me that there has never been, and never will be a computer chess program written in C that was faster than the equivalent assembly version, and that there has never been, and never will be a computer chess program written in C++ that was faster than the equivalent C program? If that's what you're telling me, then you're wrong. It happens. Optimizing compilers make it so.
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