Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:41:01 03/23/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 01:43:59, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >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 wise-guy. :)
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