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Subject: Re: Linux x Windows performance in chess programs

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 11:11:54 11/13/02

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On November 13, 2002 at 13:45:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:

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>(2) gcc is multi-platform.  It will compile source and produce
> executables for most any computer architecture on the planet.
> MSVC is specifically tailored to the intel/amd architectures,
> which lets the developers spend more time studying the particular
> target architectures as opposed to having to produce and optimize
> code for nearly all architectures.

MSVC is also available for IA-64, MIPS, PPC, Alpha (or was until MS stopped
development of NT on Alpha), ARM (plus Thumb), SuperH, TriCore.

Still less platforms than GCC, but more than enough.

Thanks,
Eugene



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