Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 11:17:08 02/18/04
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On February 17, 2004 at 12:18:49, Tord Romstad wrote: >On February 17, 2004 at 11:59:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On February 17, 2004 at 11:49:45, Tord Romstad wrote: >> >>>>Of course Crafty runs on all the boxes you mentioned, >>> >>>Not including Palm OS, unless I have missed something? Aren't Crafty's >>>memory requirements a bit on the big side for the current generation >>>of Palm OS units? >> >>Don't know. It runs on the IPAQ device. > >The IPAQs has more memory available for programs, I think, but I could >be wrong. True. At the time I wrote PocketCrafty, iPAQ's came standard with 32 MB of RAM. All free RAM could be used by a process. At the time, the Palm OS had more stringent per-process memory requirements and not much POSIX compatibility. I have no information about current Palm development techniques, but obviously it was possible to port ChessTiger was The Windows CE development environment is very similar to that of standard Windows, including standard C library functions for files and memory. Thus it was relatively easy to port crafty as a worker-thread of a chess program. The biggest memory requirement of crafty (and chess programs in general) is for its hash tables, which can be made quite small (a few megabytes). The opening library can be arbitrarily small, and endgame cache can be disabled. Ian
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