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Subject: Re: Crafty for Psion/Palm ??

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 13:36:56 02/15/00

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On February 15, 2000 at 14:24:56, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On February 15, 2000 at 13:44:46, Kim Roper Jensen wrote:
>
>>Has anybody tried to compile crafty for the Psion 5/5MX or PalmPilot ??
>>Just a thougt, because i think there should be some C compilers,
>> for them( the PDA´s )
>
>From what I've heard, Crafty is a prety memory intensive program.
>
>It also depends heavily on 64-bit operations.
>
>The computers you mention don't have much memory and it takes them forever to do
>64-bit operations.
>
>-Tom


Memory shouldn't be a problem. Don't you think 4Mb is enough to store Crafty and
its data?

However the problem indeed is that the DragonBall EZ (the processor of the Palm,
68K compatible), has a 16 bits data bus between the processor and the memory.
This would be a killer for a program like Crafty, handling 64 bits integers.

Crafty is designed for peoples able to afford expensive computers. You need a 64
bits processor, preferably several 64 bits processors in the same computer.



    Christophe



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