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Subject: Re: Crafty 15_20 vs Crafty16_8

Author: Hristo

Date: 17:50:39 06/01/99

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On June 01, 1999 at 20:08:41, Gregor Overney wrote:

>There are several reasons why you got a stronger 15.20. But let's look at
>"plain" search strength.
>
>Did you run 'bench' on 15.20 and 16.8 to make sure that both engines run roughly
>the same amount of nodes/second? It is possible that 15.20 has been compiled
>with /Oa and VC++ 5.0 SP3. Until SP3 of VC++ 6.0 got released, Microsoft was
>"able" to sell a broken version of /Oa. It seems to be fixed in SP3. This little
>difference makes your code run 5% faster.
>
>Gregor

Thanks ...
I didn't do the bench thing. But it will be done tonight.
Probably I should get the "new" 16.8 ...

Hristo




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