Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 14:16:40 07/03/03
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On July 03, 2003 at 01:57:28, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On July 02, 2003 at 18:53:22, Dan Andersson wrote: > >> For those that have waited for a faster compiler for AMD64. >>http://www.theinquirer.org/?article=10292 >>The links in the document contain useful information. >>Wonder what it will do for chess programs. >> >>MvH Dan Andersson > >If you look at http://www.pgroup.com/images/pg50vpg41.jpg you will see they only >give the relative performance to a previous version of the same compiler. No >absolute scores. Since they do not offer any absolute scores, I would assume >they are nothing to brag about. A 375% percent improvement over junk can still >be junk. Do not expect miracles. It can be, but there's no reason to expect it to be junk. Look at Sun's optimization of 179.art to see an extraordinary example to the contrary. AFAIK, PCG's compiler has always had pretty good performance.
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