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Subject: Re: 'best' C compiler

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 08:08:32 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?

MSVC is by far the fastest.  On Linux/other systems, the newest GCC is the best,
but still not within 10% of MSVC I think.



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