Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 03:01:22 02/02/02
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On February 01, 2002 at 20:22:46, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Maybe Microsoft _do_ have an internal compiler that is better than MSVC. What do they use to build Windows 2000? Can in be confirmed that is is MSVC or that it isn't MSVC? /David
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