Crafty 25.0 announcement

[bob]

If you downloaded the 25.0 source code, please download it again. A screw-up with swapping my NFS home directory caused me to release a test version that while stronger than 24.1 by a significant margin, but it was weaker than the planned 25.0 release.

I have corrected this and re-copied the correct source. Two lines were removed from search.c for a test, and that version was released by accident...

Sorry for the issue, it was caused by the two-stage release process I have to use. I have to copy from my macbook to a machine at the office that is in our DMZ, then copy from there to my web page. The machine in the DMZ was set up to shift my home directory to a new RAID array once an rsync finished. I had completely forgotten about this, so when it swapped, it reverted to the test version rather than the release version.

It's been fixed... If you have downloaded something with a date of today, you are good to go. The December 25 dated version was the broken version.

[MikeB]

If you downloaded the 25.0 source code, please download it again. A screw-up with swapping my NFS home directory caused me to release a test version that while stronger than 24.1 by a significant margin, but it was weaker than the planned 25.0 release.

I have corrected this and re-copied the correct source. Two lines were removed from search.c for a test, and that version was released by accident...

Sorry for the issue, it was caused by the two-stage release process I have to use. I have to copy from my macbook to a machine at the office that is in our DMZ, then copy from there to my web page. The machine in the DMZ was set up to shift my home directory to a new RAID array once an rsync finished. I had completely forgotten about this, so when it swapped, it reverted to the test version rather than the release version.

It's been fixed... If you have downloaded something with a date of today, you are good to go. The December 25 dated version was the broken version.

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[MikeB]

If you downloaded the 25.0 source code, please download it again. A screw-up with swapping my NFS home directory caused me to release a test version that while stronger than 24.1 by a significant margin, but it was weaker than the planned 25.0 release.

I have corrected this and re-copied the correct source. Two lines were removed from search.c for a test, and that version was released by accident...

Sorry for the issue, it was caused by the two-stage release process I have to use. I have to copy from my macbook to a machine at the office that is in our DMZ, then copy from there to my web page. The machine in the DMZ was set up to shift my home directory to a new RAID array once an rsync finished. I had completely forgotten about this, so when it swapped, it reverted to the test version rather than the release version.

It's been fixed... If you have downloaded something with a date of today, you are good to go. The December 25 dated version was the broken version.

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Latest Mac Exe's

[Modern Times]

Will Peter Skinner be providing the usual official Windows compiles ?

[bob]

Will Peter Skinner be providing the usual official Windows compiles ?

I actually am not sure, will ask him...

[Modern Times]

Is it right Bob that the in-built BENCH command should always return the same total nodes searched for all compiles of the same source ? What number does your compile produce ?

[MikeB]

If you downloaded the 25.0 source code, please download it again. A screw-up with swapping my NFS home directory caused me to release a test version that while stronger than 24.1 by a significant margin, but it was weaker than the planned 25.0 release.

I have corrected this and re-copied the correct source. Two lines were removed from search.c for a test, and that version was released by accident...

Sorry for the issue, it was caused by the two-stage release process I have to use. I have to copy from my macbook to a machine at the office that is in our DMZ, then copy from there to my web page. The machine in the DMZ was set up to shift my home directory to a new RAID array once an rsync finished. I had completely forgotten about this, so when it swapped, it reverted to the test version rather than the release version.

It's been fixed... If you have downloaded something with a date of today, you are good to go. The December 25 dated version was the broken version.

Latest Crafty Source

Latest Mac Exe's

Updated the exe - one exe for All Macs. Same link. Mike 12/28/15 10:34PM EST

[bob]

Is it right Bob that the in-built BENCH command should always return the same total nodes searched for all compiles of the same source ? What number does your compile produce ?

Yes. Just be sure to run it with NO .craftyrc/crafty.rc as if you change hash size, the node count will change. Correct number is this:

White(1): bench
Running benchmark. . .
......
Total nodes: 169405499

[Modern Times]

Is it right Bob that the in-built BENCH command should always return the same total nodes searched for all compiles of the same source ? What number does your compile produce ?

Yes. Just be sure to run it with NO .craftyrc/crafty.rc as if you change hash size, the node count will change. Correct number is this:

White(1): bench
Running benchmark. . .
......
Total nodes: 169405499

That is what Jim Ablett's compile gives. I guess no need for Peter to provide any exes now unless he wants to.

[Dann Corbit]

Preliminary testing shows Jim's builds to be best by test.
I will have 2800 games by tomorrow, but all of his builds are at the top right now.