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Subject: Re: Chess engine speed up tricks

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 13:34:57 02/15/05

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On February 15, 2005 at 15:13:27, Eric Oldre wrote:

>On February 15, 2005 at 12:59:42, Michel Langeveld wrote:
>
>>* include everything in one big file instead of multiple files
>
>Does this really make a significant difference? Currently Latista
>is broken up into 27 different .cpp files each of which are compiled
>separately and then linked.
>
>I know it's impossible to predict the exact gains to be had by
>including each of these files in one big file. But do people think
>there is a significant chance I'll see a measurable improvement by doing so?
>
>Thanks,
>Eric

The reason to do it is that GCC can't do "global" optimizations between files.

anthony



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