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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 07:23:11 01/08/01

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On January 06, 2001 at 22:34:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

In kernel 2.4 they have adressed the shared memory problem a bit,
i don't know to what extend as i couldn't try (have not a working
version of linux installed at any of my compu's)





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