Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 09:16:03 01/07/03
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On January 07, 2003 at 10:38:19, Uri Blass wrote: >I use today microsoft visual C++6 > >I want to know if .net C++ is a better compiler. > >I now only tested movei with intel C++ compiler and I got a small speed >improvement(4 or 5% faster) but a lot of remarks and warning. > >The warning that I got are all or mainly about functions that the intel compiler >did not profile(and the reason is that I profiled only >by doing a game of movei against itself at depth 7 so I never called some >functions like analyze or winboard commands). > >Uri I have not really tested the Intel C compilers to see the quality of the assembly they generate. However, I do know that bitboard manipulations in VC 7 don't work too well. The handling of branches also leaves much to be desired. The rest of the code is pretty efficient; it took hours of toiling over assembly code to beat VC 7. -Matt
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