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Subject: Re: off topic : msvc 7 availability

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 11:08:35 03/23/00

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On March 23, 2000 at 13:03:15, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On March 23, 2000 at 11:48:19, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>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
>>
>>As soon as I can go and buy a copy, I'm interested. ;)
>
>I am using it every day :-)
>
>Eugene

Yeah, but you work there!  What about the rest of us? :)

Dave



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