Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 15:28:48 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 have to disagree with this. MSVC 6 reguarly produced much faster executables for Crafty than gcc-2.95.2, even though gcc-2.95.2 is told to use P6-specific instructions while MSVC 6 doesn't. Dave
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