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Subject: Re: Crafty 19.0?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:04:53 08/06/02

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On August 06, 2002 at 13:00:31, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On August 05, 2002 at 11:50:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 05, 2002 at 01:51:12, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>Bob, I saw on ICC that the latest version of Crafty you're working on is 19.0.
>>>
>>>I know in Crafty's history, version number changes signify major changes in
>>>Crafty itself.
>>>
>>>So....what's the big change?  :)
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>
>>
>>Two things (so far).
>>
>>1.  different way of limiting extensions.  I am now using a "tapered"
>>extension reduction so that extensions applied near the root are larger
>>while those applied farther out are smaller.  I also now allow more than
>>one ply of extensions near the root...
>>
>>2.  I am dropping msdos support and getting rid of the I/O polling model
>>to handle pondering.  I am using two threads, one to do I/O and one to do
>>the search.  It is cleaner...
>
>
>
>This will prevent any port of Crafty to PalmOS!
>
>Not that I think that you care, of course... ;-)
>
>
>
>    Christophe


it won't support "threads" of any kind?

in that case, it is doomed to becoming obsolete anyway.  :)



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