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Subject: Re: Which is better for MSVC ++ SP3 or SP4? Compiling questions...

Author: Vincent Vega

Date: 18:31:34 09/02/00

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On September 02, 2000 at 18:47:33, Peter Skinner wrote:

>Is there really any difference? I seem to recall the SP4 compiles slower code,
>or atleast that is what someone was stating...

For my programs (non-chess related, a lot of floating point stuff,
processor-intensive) SP4 is better by about 5%.  SP4 is supposed to get rid of
some unnecessary instructions for some code with /O2 switch, improving that code
performance (see this:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q234/5/11.asp).



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