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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