Author: Tomas Casanovas Martinez
Date: 14:38:53 02/10/00
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On February 09, 2000 at 19:14:47, Dann Corbit wrote: >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, Thanks, Dan! everything is clear for me now... Tomas
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