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Subject: Re: DOS, the best platform for chess programming?

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 21:22:12 04/12/03

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On April 12, 2003 at 20:40:41, emerson tan wrote:

>DOS, the best platform for chess programming?
>
>Ed Shroeder mentioned before that DOS is the best platform for chess
>programming, is this true? Does chess program run faster under DOS? if this is
>true, what's the explanation?

http://www.rebel.nl/cpengine.htm

"As can be seen SSDF has played with a DOS-version of Chess Tiger. Will the
final commercial Windows-version Rebel-Tiger be slower and therefore weaker? No,
surprisingly the opposite seems to be the case! Windows does slow the program
down with 2-3%, but since the Windows compiler is better than the DOS-compiler,
the net effect is a speed advantage for the Windows version. Our preliminary
tests with a beta-version indicates that the Windows version is about 8-10%
faster at three minutes per move."



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