Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:14:47 02/09/00
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On February 09, 2000 at 17:34:18, Tomas Casanovas Martinez wrote: [snip] >I am almost sure that my question has been answered before in this forum. But I >would like to know which are the differences between the Craftys posted here: >binary, tweaked, Alpha, SMP, Intel, etc. I need to apologise for my question if >this an usual vocabulary for native english-speaking people, but I am totally >unable to understand it. All are 'tweaked' -- the same source code base is used to build them all. I change a bunch of things for my own purposes. I make many strings and arrays larger, and do some modifications so that I can input several million PGN games into the book builder. My tablebase files are in several places, and I sometimes process EPD files that are in deep directories on network drives. Hence, I change everything that is a file from: char somefile[100]; to: char somefile[FILENAME_MAX]; /* As defined in stdio.h */ My changes won't really change performance much. They are for my own utility. All the builds are for Windows 95/98/2K/NT. SMP is for machines with more than one CPU. They will run on single CPU machines, but the single CPU version will be 25-30% faster. If you only have one CPU, get the single CPU version. Alpha is for NT machines that have the COMPAQ Alpha processor. All the files are binary files. That just means "not a text file." >I downloaded the first of Dann's addresses above: Crafty1.exe. And my first >feeling is that it is a strong version, but not much stronger than the previous >ones. At 10, 15 and 30 minutes this version -I don't know what version is it- >performes roughly equal than the wcrafty 16-12. You can see what version it is by starting it from the command line. The first thing it does is report its version number. >Thanks again to Bob Hyatt for his excellent work with his transparent/open , >extremely strong and free Craftys. Regards,
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