Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:39:01 11/09/01
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On November 09, 2001 at 08:55:25, José Carlos wrote: >>I do not think that you have the right to decide about the names. >>Chessbase decide about the name and if they call it Fritz7 then it is Fritz7. >> >>The name of the file is not important for the name of the engine. >>They could use the name 88.0.0.888 if they wanted. >>In that case It is still Fritz7 and not Fritz88. > > Of course the name is not important. I think what he means is that Fritz7 MMX >and no MMX produce different moves, and that no MMX is closer to Fritz 6. Also, >the internal version number means a lot. If they call it internally 6.0.0.76, >that usually means is rebuild #76 of version 6 (minor changes). After a major >change, the name it 7.xxx. > This is to be expected bu, of course, the only way to know if no mmx version >is clearly better than F.6 is testing. > >>It is not important if there is only a small change in Fritz6 to get Fritz7. >>If they change one line of code and make the engine 200 elo better than people >>are going to be happy to buy the new engine. > > True. Strenght is the important thing. But nobody improves an engine 200 >points buy changing a line of code... I could worsen it though... :) It depends on the program I believe that it is impossible for strong programs. It may be possible for weak programs because correcting a bug may be only changing one line of code. > >>It is an extreme example >>If you want to think about more realistic example then if they change 1% of the >>source code and make it 50 elo better than I will be happy to buy it. > > Nobody cares about the % of change to the source code. People buy new versions >because they are stronger or the GUI has new/improved features. I agree but the poster care about the number of the version. If the programmer did only a small change then it is logical to call the new version in similiar number. > >>In the relevant case it seems that they even changed clearly more than 1% of the >>source code. >> >>Fritz6 is 304Kbytes >>Fritz7(no mmx is 356 Kbytes) > > And this is nonsense. The exact same source code can compile to different file >sizes depending on optimizations, compiler, operating system... Even a single >word like __inline can change the size a lot. I sayed that it seems to be changed in more than 1% I did not say that I sure about it. Uri
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