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Subject: Re: crafty 19.10

Author: Bryan Hofmann

Date: 07:33:01 02/03/04

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On February 02, 2004 at 22:46:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 02, 2004 at 18:33:39, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>On February 02, 2004 at 15:12:02, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On February 02, 2004 at 15:11:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 02, 2004 at 14:40:30, Evgeny Shu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hello ,
>>>>>crafty 19.10 doesn't compile on visual studio, files missing and so on..
>>>>>I use "nmake -f makefile.nt" wich has no problems with 19.9
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>What is missing?  note that testepd.c is no longer needed as it is in test.c
>>>>already...
>>>
>>>It is also possible that Makefile.nt does not do the right -D definitions to
>>>work well with the new source.  I am looking at that right now as Peter has also
>>>asked me about it...
>>
>>Hi Robert,
>>
>>Has anything changed thus far from the first release of 19.10?
>>
>>I removed the /DDETECTDRAW flag, and it seems to play faster. I did read your
>>post that the option is "cute" but does slow it down greatly, and that does seem
>>to be the case.
>>
>>Peter.
>
>
>My main concern is the stuff about inline asm for MSVC.  Note that there are
>now only three asm functions used in Crafty, FirstOne(), LastOne() and PopCnt().
> I am more worried that it might not be done correctly now as the old
>USE_ASSEMBLYA/USE_ASSEMBLYB were combined into USE_ASSEMBLY.  More when I get a
>breather to look.  We are interviewing perspective faculty this week which is
>keeping things hopping around here.

I don't know if your interested or not but I was able to get a tad faster (2
sec) Crafty compiled with Mingw/GCC 3.2 then Peter's compile. I can send you the
Makefile if you want, it is for Athlon-XP systems.


Bryan



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