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Subject: Re: Have trouble running crafty 17.5

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:17:10 12/28/99

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On December 28, 1999 at 16:10:05, James T. Walker wrote:

>On December 28, 1999 at 15:40:20, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 28, 1999 at 13:21:16, ERIQ wrote:
>>
>>>I downloaded the linux excutable 17.5 but machine say "dump core". tryed
>>>compiling the code first using Gcc but same message. I did compile 16.8 and
>>>it runs fine.
>>>
>>>sign,
>>>   Eriq
>>
>>
>>What kind of CPU?  AMD is _not_ 100% intel compatible.
>
>Hello Bob,
>Just to let you know, I'm running Crafty 17.5 on an AMD K6-3-450 and Crafty
>seems to like it.  Except of course for the problem I mentioned with the
>tablebases (KNNKP).  The Benchmark on my K6-3-450 is 316052 Raw nodes per sec.
>Jim Walker


Right.. But if you run linux on that AMD and try my linux executable it won't
work, because AMD didn't implement CMOV among other things, and I use the best
optimizations for the Intel P6, which produces those instructions.  I assume
that Eugene is not doing that to prevent the problem...



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