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Subject: Re: Any goodies in Linux kernel 2.4 for chess engine programmers ?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:00:06 01/07/01

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On January 07, 2001 at 05:31:23, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On January 06, 2001 at 22:34:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Always has been..  Doesn't optimize as well as Microsoft's compiler...
>
>Have you ever experimented with a snapshot of gcc-2.96/3.0 ?

I have tried them all so far.  2.95.2 is still the fastest version I
have tried.


>
>It's supposed to have a completely new x86 backend and several
>additional optimizations as well. Maybe it would be interesting
>to experiment with it.
>
>Also, have you ever figured out why Crafty's preformance drops
>with higher optimization levels in GCC? If you could find this
>out it could be very interesting for the GCC folks...
>
>--
>GCP


Basically because the "higher optimizations" are worse.  I don't try to
compare .S output for the various options, although I would assume that
whoever works on the optimizer would do so...

Wish gcc would catch up a bit to MSVC, but it hasn't in several years.



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