Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:34:59 01/06/01
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On January 06, 2001 at 21:50:13, Wayde Beasley wrote: >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? Always has been.. Doesn't optimize as well as Microsoft's compiler...
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