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Subject: Re: 'best' C compiler

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 08:07:09 10/19/00

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On October 19, 2000 at 10:56:50, martin fierz wrote:

>hi,
>
>under windows i normally use borland's C compiler 5.0. i was wondering if there
>are any significant performance differences for the executables when using other
>C compilers - has anybody ever tried compiling crafty or another chess program
>with different compilers and checked the speed?
>
>cheers
>  martin

Yep. As far as I know Visual C is the fastest. The free GCC compiler also does a
good job. Then the rest. When I go from a CBuilder 4 executable to a VC
executable I end up 25-30% faster.













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