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Subject: Re: Crafty and single-computer winboard matches

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 00:42:54 10/08/99

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On October 07, 1999 at 23:29:05, Christophe Theron wrote:

>That's a real problem on PC.
>
>The timer clicks 65536 times in 1 hour, which makes something close to 18.2
>times per second, or a 0.05s timer resolution.
>
>This numbers come from the prehistoric IBM PC 4.77MHz and have never been
>changed in 20 years, for compatibility reasons.
>
>Even Windows programmers did not dare to change this. You have time functions in
>Windows, they returns values in milliseconds, but still the resolution is about
>0.05s!!!

Use performance tick counts if you develop for Win32.  (Actually, I am not 100%
sure that Win98 supports them. :-(  WinNT does for sure.)  Their resolution is
very good.

Dave

• Re: Crafty and single-computer winboard matches Christophe Theron 01:16:57 10/08/99
  • Re: Crafty and single-computer winboard matches Vincent Lejeune 03:14:23 10/08/99
    • Re: Crafty and single-computer winboard matches Christophe Theron 13:43:37 10/08/99
      • Re: Crafty and single-computer winboard matches Vincent Lejeune 04:30:48 10/09/99
        • Re: Crafty and single-computer winboard matches Christophe Theron 10:02:38 10/09/99
          • Re: Crafty and single-computer winboard matches Dave Gomboc 10:55:25 10/09/99
            • Re: Crafty and single-computer winboard matches Robert Hyatt 12:39:51 10/09/99
    • Re: Crafty and single-computer winboard matches Dave Gomboc 09:14:28 10/08/99

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