Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 22:07:15 03/22/00
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On March 22, 2000 at 22:33:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>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%.
>>
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>>
>> Christophe
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>
>MSVC is _far_ more than 10% faster than the best gcc compiler. I have tried
>_all_ the gcc optimizations... Eugene has done pretty much the same for
>microsoft. His executables run about 20% faster than mine. Identical source.
>
>MSVC is _really_ good at optimizing. gcc isn't there yet...
My own experience is different, sorry.
Christophe
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