Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Wanted: Deep Blue vs. today's top programs recap

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:28:15 08/28/01

Go up one level in this thread


On August 28, 2001 at 04:34:42, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 27, 2001 at 22:52:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Because
>>doing that never occurred to me until my chess partner wanted to know "Hey,
>>I found a good FORTRAN compiler for the 386...  can you compile the pure
>>FORTRAN version of CB so I can run it at home?"  He found it useless due to the
>>incredibly slow speed.
>
>Hmm, this sounds interesting! Would it be possible to compile CB with
>the GNU Fortran compiler or something similar?
>
>--
>GCP

Probably.  The problem is that there is a good bit of assembly that has to
be translated as well.  The compiler couldn't always figure out how to vectorize
something, so we did it "inline" ourselves to make it use the right hardware
instructions...




This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.