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Subject: Re: crafty 19.10

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 16:12:04 02/03/04

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On February 03, 2004 at 18:04:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 03, 2004 at 10:33:01, Bryan Hofmann wrote:
>
>>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
>
>
>I don't do any windows compiling at all, so it won't help me, but it might help
>Peter and others that are doing this.

As I mainly compile for the Pentium class processors, it probably won't help me.
I know Aaron does compile for AMD only, so it will probably will interest him.

Peter



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