Author: Joshua Shriver
Date: 09:50:05 09/23/05
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For engines that have both linux and windows binaries I'll do some nps comparisons and post them online. As for Shredder, is it UCI based? Basicaly do you have to run it under their GUI or can you use polyglot + winboard/arena? If so you should be able to run it under wine. Keep in mine wine isn't an emulator. It's not trying to run an entire version of windows and then run the program, it just runs it as native, and when it comes across a system or non-linux call it translates it. So while it might not be 100% as fast, it should be really close. Keep in mind a chess engine that's cli based is more or less selfsufficient, only making simple i/o calls. So that limites the amount that wine actually has to translate. Then again I might be wrong ;) but from the test games so far it seems right. Fruit2.1 linux vs Fruit2.1 windows is 3-3-0 right now. Josh > >Did you measure the nps of the chess programs? Crafty for instance exists for >Windows as well as for Linux. > >I use VMWare (www.vmware.com); it slows down i.e. the Shredder engine less then >10%, what means if you run Shredder in a virtual windows machine under Linux, >your 3 GHz computer is as fast as one with 2,7 GHz. But VMWare costs money. A >free emulator is qemu (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/), but I've never >tried. Maybe somebody here can measure how fast a chessprogram runs under >Windows in qemu. > >Lars
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