Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:52:34 01/08/01
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On January 08, 2001 at 03:41:48, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >>>So, then is it GCC that make crafty slower on linux? >> >> Always has been.. Doesn't optimize as well as Microsoft's compiler... > >Couldn't one just compile the performance critical chess engine >code with MSVC (under Windows) and produce x86 asm source output >then combine in linux these .asm files (after replacing some of MSVC >masm directives if necessary) with the rest of non-engine .c code >with GCC, to get the best of both worlds. OS overhead would surely >be smaller under linux. This would be horribly difficult. Microsoft uses a different assembly format than Linux/gcc. one uses opcode src,dst, the other uses opcode dst,src. Every line would have to be hand-repaired... and that is only the first problem...
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