Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 07:22:59 04/16/04
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On April 15, 2004 at 13:11:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 15, 2004 at 12:19:47, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On April 15, 2004 at 11:14:25, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >> >>>...or that Fritz has less instruction-level parallelism, so there is lot of >>>idle execution units. Crafty is special due to bitboards... >> >>Fritz being hand-optimized assembly, that sounds a bit unlikely. >> >>-- >>GCP > > >I thought Frans claimed that the last Fritz was back to pure C. Nowhere seen that statement. Must be some marketing guy saying a thing he has no clue from. The *interface* is probably written in C. I remember Johan de Koning also saying his program is in C, yet he uses at tournaments an outdated watcom compiler: "because i know in which register it puts things". Hahaha. Those guys just claim whatever commercially suits them. But it's assembly. >SMP would be a horror for an assembly language program. RE: Cray Blitz. It indeed must be.
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