Author: Vincent Vega
Date: 14:57:27 03/22/00
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On March 22, 2000 at 17:19:10, Christophe Theron wrote: >On March 22, 2000 at 16:38:27, ERIQ wrote: > >>does anyone think inprise will produce a better compiler for linux >>than gnu gcc. I for one would like to see faster excutables for things >>like winboard engines, and more other games. > > >The GCC compiler produces one of the fastest code on the planet. > >Maybe the programs you have tested have been compiled with an older version of >GCC which was not able to optimize for Pentium class processors. > >But there is now a version of GCC that knows how to optimize for Pentium and >later. > >I doubt there is a compiler that produces faster code. If there is, it will by a >very small margin, probably less than 5%. > > > > Christophe I know that for FP-heavy code MSVC is faster by more than that. I'm not sure which one has the edge for integer code. Chess programs are an exception to the rule here, because for most other high-performance programs today, FP speed is more important than integer speed.
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