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Subject: Re: Shiny, new Crafty 17-8 bone crushing motor online. Fasten your seatbelt

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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