Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 22:43:59 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%. >> >> >> >> Christophe > > >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... MSVC 7 would be better :-) Eugene
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