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Subject: Re: checks in qsearch

Author: Tom Likens

Date: 08:09:55 10/31/02

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On October 30, 2002 at 17:56:50, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On October 29, 2002 at 19:55:08, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>Optimizing for a certain processor like Dieter and Frans and many
>>others (Ed!) always use(d) to do is really a fulltime job IMHO.
>
>If you mean me, by "Dieter": I beg your pardon. It is not true that I am
>optimizing for one specific processor. On the contrary, I try to only use
>portable ISO C. My engine worked well on Atari ST, VAX, some MIPS (under IRIX

Ah, I remember (fondly) the Atari ST.

Sorry, you just took me back for a moment :)

regards,
--tom


>and VMS), x86, and probably more, I forgot at the moment. Before I included the
>TB-access code of Eugene Nalimov, it even worked well with 16 bit compilers. My
>engine at the moment does not use any inline assembler. Perhaps some high level
>constructs are inspired by looking at assembly output of some compilers - but
>not only from one platform.
>
>I never did a "fulltime job" for my chess engine ...
>
>Regards,
>Dieter



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