Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 16:38:42 11/10/99
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On November 10, 1999 at 02:28:32, Christophe Theron wrote: >On November 10, 1999 at 00:52:56, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>On November 09, 1999 at 22:19:23, leonid wrote: >> >>>Assembler code only in some modules or inline. This never as good as the game >>>created 100% on Assembler. Actually, biggest part of chess game, just before >>>Windows, were done on Assembler. Take, for instance, Genius, Rebel or Fritz. We >>>have some good C games but they all are on the places after the first four. >> >>Fritz is (or at least was) written in assembler. I don't know about Genius, but >>I don't think it was. Rebel, however, is not written in assembler. I don't >>know of any other program that is assembler, either. > >Both Rebel and Genius are written in assembler. Earlier versions of Rebel were >written in C, then Ed rewrote the core of the engine in assembly (not >everything, but a good part of it). It probably made sense at that time because >his C compiler was not good enough, I don't think it makes sense anymore. > > > Christophe Ed said just a month or two ago that his assembler eval is 30% faster than his C version. Apparently it makes enough sense that he is still maintaining it...!? Dave
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