From: buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner)
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Subject: Re: UPX
Date: 24 May 2000 12:07:39 GMT
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AndrewJ wrote:

>> It was easier than it seemed. I just unziped it and draged it to upx.
>> I shrunk it too 200 kb so thats good. I sped crafty up a little bit.
>> Does anyone know any more ways to speed up crafty?

I think, that the speedup must have been due to other things (perhaps
less system load). What do you mean by a little bit?

>Rewrite the code using better methods and algorithms.  

Chess programming is probably not on topic here. So please don't
forget to CC your suggestions for better methods and algorithms
to my email adress ;) Many journal editors would also be happy
to publish them.

Seriously, IIRC, the ancestor of crafty was developed long time
ago (I believe in the 70s on cray in Fortran), and it is still
actively developed. It would be hard to find better algorithms.

-- 
Regards, Dieter