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Subject: Re: Ed Schröder's opinion about Fruit 2.1

Author: Stephen A. Boak

Date: 10:47:54 10/08/05

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On October 08, 2005 at 10:24:51, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On October 08, 2005 at 09:20:48, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On October 08, 2005 at 09:14:07, David Dahlem wrote:
>>
>>>On October 08, 2005 at 09:03:04, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>
>>>>Posted on CTF
>>>>
>>>>"IMO the success of Fruit is its simplicity, a clean straight search with little
>>>>whistles and bells and balanced (but yet limited) chess knowledge. I have
>>>>compiled the 2.1 sources and it gave an 80Kb executable, simply amazing."
>>>>
>>>>Ed Schröder
>>>>
>>>>High praise from one of the world's best renowned chess programmers.
>>>>
>>>>Kudos to Fruit's programming team.
>>>>
>>>>best,
>>>>
>>>>Michael
>>>
>>>The Fruit 2.2 executable is 632kb. Is this due to the compiler used?
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Dave
>>
>>It's probably the security coding ;>) (just kidding - I have no clue actually.)
>
>In fact it is. :-) The unprotected Binary from Bryan is 188KB but the protection
>code is about 500 KB. I don't know why this is needed but that is what I get
>after protection.
>
>Joachim

Probably just a compression ration less than 1.0.  :)



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