Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:28:36 04/01/03
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On March 31, 2003 at 23:58:47, Jouni Uski wrote: >My new PC is now fixed (they replaced whole mainboard). I compared some test >runs under XP Pro to old Windows98 SE test and surprised: specially Ruffian now >runs 10% faster and also Fritz8 2-5% faster (including Fritzmark). I sure didn't >except this. Only minor drawback is, that XP takes more RAM, but it's only >10-15MB more. So Microsoft has something right, when they claim programs run >faster in XP. > >Jouni You have other problems. The O/S will _not_ make the engine run faster, unless you are using enough memory to cause paging. For a normal chess engine, with a normal-sized hash table, DOS is as fast as windows xp, and vice-versa.
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