Author: Chris Carson
Date: 11:35:13 12/23/99
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My opinion (plus $2.00 will get you a cup of coffee) ;), is that the commercial programs are optimized (book, eval, search, assembly language, ...) to get better performance. Evals are most liklely the biggest difference, although I expect someone will dispute me with program x is superior to program z (free program) due to blah, blah, blah. I think the both the freeware (Crafty in particular) has most everything the commercial programs have (and much more). However, Crafty is a work in progress and not a commercial (production optimized) release. This is also why I think that Crafty is ahead in some areas (and very close in strength, most likley Crafty's true rating over laps the commercial programs rating within two errors of measure). Just my two cents. I might be wrong. :) Oh, I do think that the commercial programs are doing a good job at the current priceing. Keep up the great work!! Best Regards, Chris Carson
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