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Subject: Re: For Crafty fans

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 13:11:26 07/20/04

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On July 20, 2004 at 14:04:03, Omar skulason wrote:

>Hi!
>
>It seems to me that there is no true Crafty, only CraftyDC, CraftyMB, CraftyPS,
>CraftyBH and so on. I don´t see how Kurt can pic one for his tournament.
>Bryan! Would you say that "Crafty any X86" is the closest to the original?
>
>Best regards, Ómar.

I agree that this sounds very confusing for non-programmers. It used to be
easier when Eugene Nalimov did the "official" Crafty compiles, and so the casual
user would just use whatever binary he found on Bob's website.

But you shouldn't forget that this matters much less than you would think
following the discussions. It is just about disabling or enabling some features,
choosing some compiler, and then optimizing for speed - the net result is
usually about 10-15% of speed difference the most, which would result in about 7
ELO points difference ;) .

Personally I just use the latest Crafty versions Mike Byrne provides, as they
tend to be fastest for me, and I don't worry too much about the discussions to
avoid developping a headache :).

Best regards
Peter



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