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Subject: Re: Beta of Crafty 16.5 (To Bob Hyatt and beta testers)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:32:42 02/07/99

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On February 07, 1999 at 01:00:42, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>(Sorry for placing it here - my mail is temporary unavailable,
>and it's not completely offtopic).
>
>1. There is no compressor source in the archive - is that
>   deliberately? (I don't need it :-), but maybe testers
>   do). Or you sent it to them via mail?

this was an error in the last beta release...  I made a couple of changes you
had suggested in lock.h and x86.c, but forgot to include complib.* and
datacomp.c..  I just fixed this..



>2. VC still cannot compile the sources - please remove bit
>   functions from x86.c; they are defined in include file,
>   and compiler is not very happy with functions redefinition.

done..  check when you have time...  I didn't change this myself, so I don't
know how it got confused...


>3. Suggested addition to the step 2 of the experiment - after
>   call to IInitializeTb(), insert
>     {
>     extern int cbEGTBCompBytes;
>     printf ("%d bytes used by decompression tables and indices\n",
>             cbEGTBCompBytes);
>     }
>   This way we'll know difference in amount of used memory
>   for different block (chunk) size. Also, that info is useful for
>   tuning Crafty.
>4. I sent you a fix to Alpha/NT UnLock(), and it's still not
>   incorporated...

I think current code has everything you sent.  If not, please re-send and I'll
do it again...



>
>Eugene



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