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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