Author: Charles Worthington
Date: 18:07:20 02/19/03
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On February 19, 2003 at 20:05:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 19, 2003 at 18:28:12, Charles Worthington wrote: > >>Bob I am not a programmer. Can you direct me to a source that will enable me to >>make the tweaks on the Fritz Spinlocks and Spinwaits myself? Getting chessbase >>to do anything would be near impossible. > > >No. It is a source code modification, which is the problem. You _might_ be >able to use a debugger and find the spinlocks, but inserting a pause instruction >might not be possible as it will mean "stretching" the code which would break >things without some cute tricks, such as a jump out to the lock and a jump >back... > >I wouldn't want to think about it not having any idea where the locks really >are. :) Maybe I can call the engine programmer at chessbase and see if he can make the necessary tweaks. However I imagine with the release of Deep Fritz 8 just over the horizon that these issues will be resolved anyhow. Chessbase is not unaware of the need for a hyperthreading friendly engine. Thanks for your input Bob as always. Charles
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