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Subject: C compiler comparison?

Author: martin fierz

Date: 01:06:10 08/14/03


hi,

i've often been wondering how large the differences between compilers are. does
anybody have or know of a comparison of C compiler .exe speeds for
chess-relevant integer performance? e.g. crafty compiled with different
compilers run on the same machine?

i'm asking because a fellow checkers programmer has claimed the metroworks
compiler (which i don't know myself) produces much (60%!) faster code than the
microsoft compiler - and i'm kind of sceptic about that. in my experience, the
MS compiler is a bit slower than the intel compiler, but not much (~10%); and
it's a bit faster than GCC, but again not that much (again ~10%). i certainly
always thought of it as a very good compiler.

any numbers anyone?

cheers
  martin



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