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Subject: Re: Linux x Windows performance in chess programs

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 09:23:41 11/14/02

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No idea. Ask Intel people :-)

Thanks,
Eugene

On November 14, 2002 at 09:09:21, Peter Skinner wrote:

>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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