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Subject: Re: Crafty SMP 19.13 for OS X binary available

Author: George Sobala

Date: 23:45:49 06/02/04

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On June 02, 2004 at 23:58:47, Joshua Shriver wrote:

>Right now I'm using stock gcc 3.3 that comes with OS X 10.2
>A while back IBM was releasing their xlc compiler for free as part of a beta
>test program.
>
>I did try compiling with it, and found some nice speed increases, but since they
>released the full version I dont have access to the compiler anymore.
>Forget the price but it's terribly expensive, and I'm not sure about the
>legality of distributing programs that have been compiled with it, so I haven't
>given it much thought.
>
>
>As for the makefile, here's my current version snippet added to Dr. Hyatt's
>default Makefile but I'm always tweaking it.
>
>macosx:
>        $(MAKE) target=LINUX \
>                CC=gcc CXX=g++ \
>                CFLAGS='$(CFLAGS) -DFAST -O3 -Wall -DSMP -DCPUS=2 \
>                        -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-all-loops \
>                        -finline-functions -ffast-math -DMUTEX -DPOSIX' \
>                CXFLAGS='$(CFLAGS) -Wall -O3 ' \
>                LIBS='$(LIBS) -lstdc++' \
>                crafty-make
>
>
>
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
>>I would be intgerested in you make file and settings to get the best
>>performance.
>>
>>Are you using GCC 3.3 or Metrowerks codewarrior or IBM's compiler.
>>
>>William

There are no restrictions on distributing a program compiled by XLC. To restrict
a compiler this way would be plain silly!

There is a 60 day demo version available at
http://www.absoft.com/Products/Compilers/C_C++/XLC/eval_XLC.html

(Details at http://www.absoft.com/Products/Compilers/C_C%2B%2B/XLC/XLC.html )



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