Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: need help in compiling Crafty

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 10:34:35 02/18/05

Go up one level in this thread


On February 18, 2005 at 13:30:09, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On February 18, 2005 at 12:43:20, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>2 remarks:
>>
>>(1) You mentioned /GL -- that is link-time code genration, not POGO. Did you
>>really compiled with POGO, e.g. built instrumented version, trained it, and then
>>built optimized one?
>>
>>(2) Output that you provided says "System is SMP, not NUMA". When I start Carfty
>>of Windows Server on AMD64 it correctly recognizes it as NUMA. I am not sure who
>>is guilty here -- Windows XP or BIOS settings. If later than there should be a
>>way to turn NUMA support on.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Eugene
>
>In the help file it states you first have to use the /GL switch to enable the
>possiblility of POGO compiles.
>
>If I read it right, you have to use the /GL switch first to compile the .c nodes
>to objects, then use /LTCG:PGINSTRUMENT to generate the exe with the pgi file,
>then train it, and then recompile using the trained info.

Yes, exactly so. But you can also use /GL by itself -- usually it provides nice
speedup over "plain" /O2 (or /Ox).

Thanks,
Eugene

>Then again I could be completely wrong, and thus the reason I can't get it to
>work :)
>
>Peter



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.