Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 05:34:27 03/25/04
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On March 25, 2004 at 05:27:50, Peter Schäfer wrote: >On March 25, 2004 at 01:35:55, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On March 23, 2004 at 13:58:12, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >> >>>On March 23, 2004 at 07:16:08, Joshua Shriver wrote: >>> >>>>I agree with the other poster. I would just stick with scid and xboard or >>>>eboard. >>>> >>>>You mentioned you're running Windows under and emulator, which one? Reason I ask >>>>limits what can be done to solve the problem. >>>> >>>>Here are some possible options and comments: >>>> >>>>Emulation is very slow and is cpu intensive so it's going to hurt the engines >>>>strength. Emulation also means that whatever is running the OS is contained in a >>>>sandbox, meaning that there are no conventional outside connection (file viewing >>>>etc). Though there are some ways around that. >> >> >> >>Well you seem to be quite misinformed. >> >>The Windows emulators for Linux are almost as fast as a real Windows box, and >>offer many ways to exchange files and networking capabilities. >> >>Win4lin runs a Windows almost AS FAST as a real box. It can use the native Linux >>file system. It offers network sharing (if your Linux is connected to a network, >>Win4lin is also, automatically). >> >>VMware runs Windows slightly slower than Win4lin, but it is still very fast (did >>you think that the x86 instructions where interpreted or what?). It offers >>network sharing to access the Linux filesystem or any external network. It's >>very good. I can run simultaneously a Windows 98 and a Windows XP on my Linux >>box! I can test my applications for several versions of Windows on a single >>computer without rebooting! >> >>So to sum it up, I recommend Win4Lin and VMware. I would not recommend Wine, or >>just for a few applications (most of the stuff I have tried with Wine did not >>work). I do not know about Bochs, but I have heard that it does a complete >>hardware emulation, and that is supposed to be indeed very slow. But it can >>emulate a PC on a Mac! > > >OK, but that doesn't answer the original question: can you run a native engine >(a Linux executable) under an emulated GUI ? (I strongly doubt it...) Yes, this would be the ideal setup. > >On the other hand, chess engines use few OS functions, so the speed penalty >shouldn't be big anyway. What sort of a speed penalty are we talking about? I'd use this setup to play in tournaments, either online or in-person, any penalty would be bad. The whole idea is to compile with the Linux 64-bit compilers rather than the Windows SDK 64-bit compiler. Vas
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