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Yes. I'm talking about compiling the best chess engine (not mine to be sure) on Windows using VC++ vs GCC... The GCC beats VC++ with no mercy...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'd look at your algorithms and settings. There are places where the standard library being used makes a huge difference. Another thing to check is code optimized for a specific compiler. I have some code that is highly optimized for SSE 4.2 on VC++. I will be adding intrinsic support to GCC soon, but until then, the algorithm runs 80% faster with VC++ code.
I have programs that have VC++ trouncing GCC and Clang. Others showing GCC and Clang in first. All in all, I find that Clang tends to run fastest. In the past, ICC outpaced them all, though it had some quirks and occasionally completely fell on its face (it was unreliable enough that i couldn't recommend it at the time.)
I was a big fan of Clang until earlier this year when I found both GCC and VC++ exceeding it with C++14/1z support and a serious bug we encountered in Clang. Again, all three varied in performance, depending on what was being tested and on what platform with none being the absolute best across the board.
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You need a real C/C++ compiler.
Borland C++ 5.5 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Borland
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From VS2008 compiler been up there with the others. The IDE just went downhill after VS2008 but looks like they are bringing the usable icons back (at last)!
Microsoft do listen - You just have to shout very loud and for a very long time!
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VS 2012 was the low point for me. VS 2015 is great, though still needs some work in the color department. Good news is that they really are working on it.
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Yes - even got a survey from Microsoft today asking to choose which new' sets of icons are preferred!
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Wasn't that annoying? One side would have, say, three great icons, the other side two, with the rest terrible. Great choice there.
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True! But better than what we have now...
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If you step on a landmine, are you defeeted by your enemies?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm walking away from that one.
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A step in the right direction but it's still a blasted pun - Despite what you've been toed, I'm not blowing this out of proportion.
And - If an elephant eats a 2000 lbs of hay will it detonate?
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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That pun was indeed crippling.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Lame
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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What!?! You've got no leg to stand on!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That's awful! Have you no sole?
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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You heel!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You don't know the calf of it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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PEDdling jokes, especially the likes of this one, will get you nowhere.
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Tread lightly, pal.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Exactly, I feel for those around here with a glass shin.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Reminds me of that 80's dance movie:
Footloose.
... such stuff as feet are made on
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If its a really powerful landmine, it may even give them a leg up on their enemy.
Hogan
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That'll keep you dancing!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Freedom isn't free, and you are going to sit there and make jokes on our disabled veterans?
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are you kidding?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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