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Subject: Re: Multi-processor chess (Windows flavors)

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 14:18:33 03/09/00

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On March 09, 2000 at 14:08:06, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 09, 2000 at 00:55:25, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>[snip]
>>On NT/Win2k there are many services running (typical user would not turn them
>>off). By starting Crafty "start/realtime crafty.exe" you can squeeze several
>>more percents of performance - of course, you'll notice that. as even GUI would
>>be noticeable slower.
>
>I have found that start/high crafty.exe gives almost exactly the same
>performance boost as start/realtime, and you can still get control of the
>machine back.

If you're not running anything else, using even low priority doesn't hurt it
very much.  I usually run it with low priority, and even when running Winboard,
Netscape, IE, and Winamp, Crafty is still getting well over 90% of the CPU all
the time.



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