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Subject: Re: Crafty: Linux v Windows compilers

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 03:24:26 04/30/02

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On April 29, 2002 at 18:26:43, George Sobala wrote:

egcs 2.91.66 is really a very horrible compiler.

better is gcc 3.04, *way better* than the old egcs
compiler. We talk about tens of percentiles.

Also not doing bad for crafty is the intel c++ compiler
if you manage to get it to work. i just downloaded latest
version of it, and am installing redhat 7.2 now in order
to get it to work.

Best regards,
Vincent

>A question for Dr Hyatt (or anyone else!):
>
>I run a Linux system, and am disappointed with the performance of my
>Linux-compiled versions of Crafty 18.xx versus the supplied precompiled Windows
>versions. The Windows version is about 20% faster in kN/sec on the same position
>running under Windows/NT 4.0 *in a VmWare 3.1 virtual machine running inside
>Linux*, than the native Linux version itself (compiled with egcs 2.91.66 with
>-O3 on a K6/2 460MHz 192Mb). Same hash table sizes.
>
>Am I doing something wrong with the compiles, or is egcs code really that
>inferior to the Windows compilers?



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