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Subject: Re: crafty and cygnus Code Fusion

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 15:35:52 10/27/99

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On October 23, 1999 at 13:40:59, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On October 23, 1999 at 13:03:17, Hristo wrote:
>
>>I'm having trouble compiling crafty (16.10) with the cygnus proGnu compiler.
>>Has anyone done it?
>>I want to make sure that crafty works with KBoard chess interface.
>>FYI the Cygnus compiler produces mush better code than the normal gnu
>>compiler (egcs 2.91.66) %20-%30 faster,
>>and the code is at least as fast as MSVC 6.0.
>>
>>hristo
>
>MSVC 6.0 is not that good.

Other compilers are still worse. :)

>1. it produces incorrect code when optimizing for speed (you need Service Pack
>3)

SP3 is easy to get...

>2. Tiger compiled with MSVC6 is only 4% faster than Tiger compiled by Gnu C
>Compiler v2.7.x.x (DJGPP)

For Crafty, MSVC is at least 15% faster than other compilers.



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