Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:22:46 02/01/02
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On February 01, 2002 at 19:32:18, David Rasmussen wrote: [snip] >Surely he uses some known compiler. Microsoft does not have a compiler that is >better (or nearly as good as), say, the KAI compiler, or other industrial >strength compilers. Whatever it is, it uses the MS runtime library. Here is a small string sequence I pulled from the binary: R6009 - not enough space for environment R6008 - not enough space for arguments R6002 - floating point not loaded Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library I have a hunch that it is an experimental compiler, and not for external consumption. >If they had, they would sell it. He might use some special >version of MSVC, but I bet that several industrial strength compilers are >better. They are better for clustering systems and vector machines. I doubt if they are vastly superior on a single CPU PC. >Of course, if you want the full power of such a compiler, it will take >an hour to build Crafty. It takes Eugene a couple days (minimum) after the release of the crafty sources. Whether he does a long profile or just starts slow, I don't know.
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