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Subject: Re: Qualification tournaments Crafty with "Bilguer.ctg" - gwmes -

Author: Christos Gitsis

Date: 03:58:52 09/04/05

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On September 03, 2005 at 18:34:20, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On September 03, 2005 at 18:00:41, Christos Gitsis wrote:
>
>>On September 03, 2005 at 16:28:08, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>On September 03, 2005 at 15:42:21, Robert Hollay wrote:
>>>
>>>> Don't have all Crafty v20.0 versions (DC,PS,BH) identical sources?
>>>>If yes, then these results only prove how small number of games can be
>>>>misleading in estimating playing strengths. Especially bad results
>>>>of Crafty 20.0 BH suprise me, because AFAIK BH's compiles are the fastest
>>>>around.
>>>>
>>>>Robert
>>>
>>>Actually I have benched all the different compiles out there, and mine is close
>>>to 10% faster than all the others.
>>>
>>>Dan makes some changes to the code as well for epd files and fen positions I
>>>think. Maybe that does something to the final build.
>>>
>>>I know Bryan used to remove the epd support to gain a speed edge, but I don't
>>>know if he still does that.
>>>
>>>I worked very hard to find the best set of compile options for Crafty with the
>>>VS Studio 2005 Beta 2 compiler.
>>>
>>>All I know if of all the builds, mine is the fastest on my system and many have
>>>reported the same regarding their systems. And it shows.. the number of
>>>downloads from my site in 7 days is staggering.
>>>
>>>If you look at those numbers from the site you have to remember that I also
>>>switched from PHP-Nuke 7.8 to 7.6 and had to reset all the stats. So the numbers
>>>are even larger. 19.20 for instance had almost 250 downloads the first day it
>>>was released, and then I switched the version number....
>>>
>>>Peter
>>
>>Hello Peter,
>>
>>On my Athlon 64, Crafty 20.0 BH is 4% faster than the DC and PS versions.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Christos
>
>Are you using a 64-bit build? If so that is why it is faster.
>
>Peter

Oh, no, I only have 32-bit Windows. I forgot to mention that.

Christos



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