Author: George Sobala
Date: 11:36:31 04/30/02
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On April 29, 2002 at 21:33:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 29, 2002 at 18:26:43, George Sobala wrote: > >>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? > > >go out to www.intel.com, look for their C++ compiler for linux. You can >get a non-commercial license for no charge. It produces the fastest Linux >executable I have seen, way over 10% faster than the best gcc version I >have (2.95.2)... Excellent advice. I have got Crafty working 32% faster! Thanks.
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