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Subject: Re: Linux x Windows performance in chess programs

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 06:09:21 11/14/02

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On November 13, 2002 at 14:11:54, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On November 13, 2002 at 13:45:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>> [...] deleted
>>
>>(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

With the Intel compiler addon for MSVC do you need to do anything special to
compile an engine like Crafty? Or GNUChess which my program was based off of?

Will it just automatically use the Intel stuff, or is MSVC "good" enough?



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