Author: James Swafford
Date: 09:57:11 09/23/05
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On September 23, 2005 at 12:50:05, Joshua Shriver wrote: >For engines that have both linux and windows binaries I'll do some nps >comparisons and post them online. This isn't a perfect measurement, since the compiler is still a variable. The Microsoft compilers will typically produce faster programs than gcc, for example. I think the differene is still > 10%. -- James > >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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