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Subject: Re: About the poll question.

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 09:37:15 01/11/99

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On January 06, 1999 at 20:44:09, KarinsDad wrote:

>Actually, I personally know of no programs that are intentionally designed to
>run only on a specific platform (intentionally implemented is a different
>matter). They probably exist. Granted, some programs have assembly code built
>in, but it wouldn't be a monumental task to convert one set of assembly code to
>another set unless a good majority of the program was built that way. With the
>state of today's compilers, your time would be better spent improving your
>algorithms than speeding up more than a small portion of oft used code in
>assembly language.
>
>KarinsDad
>

At least Cray Blitz is intentionally designed to run on a specific platform,
that is Cray with its "vector processiong" (I do not know exactly what it is).
Most likely other monsters of computer chess are.



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