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Subject: Re: Crafty v19.17, Crafty v19.17-Smp Downloads

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 17:36:06 09/28/04

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On September 22, 2004 at 02:29:34, Joshua Haglund wrote:

>On September 21, 2004 at 22:20:54, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On September 20, 2004 at 04:12:17, Joshua Haglund wrote:
>>
>>>Here are my compiled Crafty's. They seem to be faster then Dann Corbit's
>>>version. P4 3 Ghz, 1 GB RAM. They are also over 100kb smaller.
>>>
>>>The SMP version supports up to 8 CPUs.
>>>
>>>http://myweb.cableone.net/jhaglund/crafty/wcrafty.exe
>>>
>>>http://myweb.cableone.net/jhaglund/crafty/wcraftysmp.exe
>>>
>>>Enjoy,
>>>
>>>Joshua Haglund
>>>toneewa@yahoo.com
>>
>>
>>There may be something wrong with your versions - I tested the wcrafty.exe and
>>it does "see" the right number of nodes under the bench command.
>
>What? There's something wrong because it can see the right number of nodes?
>What's wrong it? It's staight out of the .zip file.
>
>Over my head,
>:)
>Joshua Haglund
>toneewa@yahoo.com


I left out the word "not".  Sorry.  I think a later poster nailed the discrpancy
in nodes on the head.  The "standard' crafty compiled these days is with
/DFUTILITY option.  It seems to be a little stronger with that option.

It performs the bench command with fewer nodes than your compiles.

BTW, removing /DFUTILTY does speed things up -- but it also widens the search
path and Crafty is burning search nodes that by and large provide little value.
So the trade off - faster nps , wider search or slower nps and smarter search.
All my unscientfic tests indicate that futility adds some where between 10 to 20
ELO.  Not a lot - but every little bit helps.



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