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Subject: Re: Samsung Plans Alpha Motherboard Screamers For PC Prices

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:20:27 11/14/97

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On November 14, 1997 at 06:03:17, Rivat, Joel wrote:

>Bob reports that some time ago I did testings showing that gcc was
>better or equal that DEC compilers. Howewer this is not any more
>true and I agree with DarkThought programmer to say that now
>DEC compilers are much better. About 10-20% better for Chess Guru.

10%-20% I buy.  But the speed difference we saw between the alpha/533
running Linux and the alpha/500 running NT was almost 2X.  IE Data was
running at 150K, Crafty on the Dec machine was running 250K.  I don't
buy that this difference is because of GCC...

Bob



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