Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 11:23:10 10/29/02
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On October 29, 2002 at 12:28:10, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On October 29, 2002 at 11:38:30, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On October 29, 2002 at 06:13:57, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On October 29, 2002 at 06:07:57, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>> >>>Christophe what are you planning to do with CT in the near future to take >>>advantage of this new 200 Mhz palm operating the new OS 5? >>> >>>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,106364,00.asp >> >> >> >>As soon as possible the core of the chess engine will be recompiled in native >>ARM mode. >> >>This will give probably a 150 elo points increase. >> >>...Well only if you buy a PalmOS 5 handheld. >> >> >> >> Christophe > >This is great news since the new OS 5 offers several improvements on the >existing version including support for microprocessors with ARM cores. > >"The principle feature of Palm OS 5 is that it is the first Palm operating >system which runs on the ARM family of RISC [reduced instruction set computer] >microprocessors which are anywhere from two to 30 times faster than the existing >68K microprocessors that Palm OS today runs on," said Nagel. Plus very soon >there will be faster palms running up to 400 Mhz next year. This means that >Chess Tiger could even reach up to 2400 in Elo rating points. > >Pichard. You will not see fully ARM-native apps until Palm OS 6 (Palm OS 5 doesn't support them).
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