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Subject: Re: Any goodies in Linux kernel 2.4 for chess engine programmers ?

Author: Wayde Beasley

Date: 18:50:13 01/06/01

On January 06, 2001 at 19:22:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 06, 2001 at 11:11:33, Wayde Beasley wrote:
>
>>I believe it was yesterday or the day before that Linux kernel version 2.4
>>finally came out.  Lots of new stuff and better stuff in there.
>>
>>Are there any goodies in the new kernel that are attractive to chess engine
>>programmers?  Take Crafty; I wonder if the new SMP stuff in 2.4 will improve
>>Crafty on the Linux boxen.  Also, as I understand it, Crafty runs faster as a
>>windows compile on the same hardware.   Does 2.4 change that or is that just a
>>compiler issue?
>
>
>Nope.  It is more efficient overall, but chess engines generally don't poke
>the O/S very often so it doesn't have much influence on the game...


So, then is it GCC that make crafty slower on linux?

Re: Any goodies in Linux kernel 2.4 for chess engine programmers ? Robert Hyatt 19:34:59 01/06/01
- Re: Any goodies in Linux kernel 2.4 for chess engine programmers ? Vincent Diepeveen 07:23:11 01/08/01
- Linux, GCC vs MSVC Ratko V Tomic 00:41:48 01/08/01
  - Re: Linux, GCC vs MSVC Robert Hyatt 06:52:34 01/08/01
    - Re: Linux, GCC vs MSVC Gian-Carlo Pascutto 07:02:27 01/08/01
- Re: Any goodies in Linux kernel 2.4 for chess engine programmers ? Gian-Carlo Pascutto 02:31:23 01/07/01
  - Re: Any goodies in Linux kernel 2.4 for chess engine programmers ? Vincent Diepeveen 07:37:34 01/08/01
  - Re: Any goodies in Linux kernel 2.4 for chess engine programmers ? Robert Hyatt 07:00:06 01/07/01
    - Re: Any goodies in Linux kernel 2.4 for chess engine programmers ? Simon Waters 10:40:37 01/08/01
  - Re: Any goodies in Linux kernel 2.4 for chess engine programmers ? Dieter Buerssner 03:19:05 01/07/01

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