Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:32:03 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
Great. Will it produce correct code this time, or do I have to get a 120Mb patch
several months after the release to get it to work right?
I have never caught GCC producing incorrect code, BTW.
Christophe
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