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Subject: Re: small match w/ yace vs. crafty 19.3 compiled with gcc 3.3

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:54:30 08/05/03

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On August 05, 2003 at 03:42:58, ERIQ wrote:

>I noticed that when I compiled crafty with gcc 3.3 the resulting binary was <
>1/3 of crafty binary compiled with 2.95 and so I thought I would test it on a
>few positions vs. my old crafty.
>
>It proved to be faster so I thought a small match against yace would be good to
>see if new speed makes any difference. The last match was very close a diff of
>only two games out of twenty. I am now running just 10 games 40/40. All in all
>
>I think gcc is getting alot better.

Comparing the size of the binaries is irrelevant.  That includes any
static libs that are included as part of the executable, which will have
nothing to do with the speed of the executable at all.



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