Author: Daniel Shawul
Date: 01:16:10 08/27/05
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On August 26, 2005 at 15:09:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: >I just released version 20.0. The only new feature beyond 19.20, is that the >book files (*.bin) are now portable. That is, you can build a book on a >big-endian architecture, and use it on a little-endian architecture. You can >build a book on a 32 bit architecture, and use it on a 64 bit architecture. >Etc. This was a sore point with me for quite a while... some systems/compilers >make structures multiples of 8 bytes, some multiples of 4, some are big-endian, >some are little-endian. In the 2004 WCCC blitz tournament, I gave peter a book >that was made on my 32 bit systems, which produced some bizarre stuff on the 64 >bit opteron. I decided to fix that. > >20.1 will be out as soon as I get all the bit renumbering done. Nothing new >other than a very slight expected speedup due to the removal of the 63 - bit# >translation required between the Intel BSF/BSR and the Cray LEADZ bit numbering >schemes... > >20.2 and beyond are a planned complete revision of the Evaluation, but these >changes will not be released publicly until after the next WCCC event... Any ideas on adding limited checks in qsearch? I know you have tried this before and dumped it. But many people have found it to be useful at least to do checks at first ply of qsearch. daniel
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