Author: martin fierz
Date: 00:05:15 08/15/03
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On August 15, 2003 at 00:14:34, Dann Corbit wrote: >On August 14, 2003 at 04:06:10, martin fierz wrote: > >>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? > >I would say that your fellow programmer is selling you horse feathers and pickle >smoke. well, so would i :-) there have been lots of comparisons between intel, MSVC and GCC on this board; i'd just be interested how metrowerks codewarrior compares. personally i'd be surprised if it was better than any of the above, but i'm the kind of guy who likes real numbers! cheers martin
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