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Subject: Re: Do have the Crafty the Assembler written core?

Author: leonid

Date: 16:38:34 11/02/99

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On November 02, 1999 at 18:31:08, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On November 02, 1999 at 15:59:07, leonid wrote:
>
>>On November 01, 1999 at 20:58:37, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>
>>>On November 01, 1999 at 19:50:12, leonid wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>Hi. :)
>>>
>>>>I have the Crafty game in my Hiarcs 7.32 package. When I plyed with Crafty I was
>>>>impressed and puzzled. Impressed with the game that I found quick and good but
>>>>doubtful about the central part of the game. In what language it was really
>>>>written? Core part in Assembler, or 100% on C?
>>>
>>>Some of the speed-critical functions are now in assembler, if it's compiled with
>>>MSVC.  The rest is in C (The TB probe code is C++).
>>
>>
>>This just what I thought is the most probable. This have sense. So, this is not
>>100% C game.
>>Leonid.
>
>	Crafty also has some assembler code for the Sparc architecture. I think Bob ran
>crafty on Sparc machines some years ago.
>José.

And this, I imagine, was the time when the game was champion. Switching to
Assembler give some small but appreciable difference.
Leonid.






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