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My opinion on the bots. Which is better? It depends.

Posted By: Michael Petch
Date: Tuesday, 10 May 2011, at 7:44 p.m.

In Response To: My opinion on the bots. Which is better? It depends. (leobueno)

GNUBG will continue to evolve. In the past couple years some retraining has actually occurred. In February discussions occurred about support AVX instructions and making changes to pruning nets to improve speed.

Philippe Michel has been working on small (incremental) speed improvements in a number of areas over the past number of months.

One thing to note, GNUBG is designed to compile across a variety of architectures (different processors, instruction sets etc) and in doing so we give up some speed potential to work in more environments.

The one advantage of GNUBG is that the source will always be available for those to work on it in the future. Unlike commercial software such as JellyFish and Snowie - the companies stopped supporting the software and there was/is no source code for people to carry on the torch. I'd still be interested in seeing if SnowieGroup could resolve any copyright issues and be able to place their engine into the public domain.

GNUBG has been existence and maintained for over a decade. As long as there is a community of developers interested in backgammon and believe in software freedom, I doubt GNUBG will be disappearing anytime soon. I know there is one non developer who would like people to think that GNUBG is pretty much dead, and I like to call people like that "wrong".

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  leobueno -- Sunday, 8 May 2011, at 1:47 p.m.
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    Mr Majestyk -- Sunday, 8 May 2011, at 3:09 p.m.
    • Should I switch from GNUbg to XG? What about BGblitz?
      Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 8 May 2011, at 5:49 p.m.
      • Should I switch from GNUbg to XG? What about BGblitz?
        mamabear -- Sunday, 8 May 2011, at 6:59 p.m.
        • Should I switch from GNUbg to XG? What about BGblitz?
          Frank Berger -- Monday, 9 May 2011, at 6:17 p.m.
          • Should I switch from GNUbg to XG? What about BGblitz?
            Michael Petch -- Monday, 9 May 2011, at 7:37 p.m.
        • Should I switch from GNUbg to XG? What about BGblitz?
          Ian Shaw -- Tuesday, 10 May 2011, at 4:53 p.m.
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    Stein Kulseth -- Sunday, 8 May 2011, at 3:21 p.m.
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    Frank Berger -- Monday, 9 May 2011, at 6:14 p.m.
    • Should I switch from GNUbg to XG? What about BGblitz?
      Mislav Radica -- Tuesday, 10 May 2011, at 11:04 a.m.
      • Should I switch from GNUbg to XG? What about BGblitz?
        Frank Berger -- Tuesday, 10 May 2011, at 3:56 p.m.
        • My opinion on the bots. Which is better? It depends.
          Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 10 May 2011, at 5:44 p.m.
          • My opinion on the bots. Which is better? It depends.
            leobueno -- Tuesday, 10 May 2011, at 7:17 p.m.
            • My opinion on the bots. Which is better? It depends.
              Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 10 May 2011, at 7:44 p.m.
              • My opinion on the bots. Which is better? It depends.
                Philippe Michel -- Tuesday, 10 May 2011, at 9:54 p.m.
                • My opinion on the bots. Which is better? It depends.
                  Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 10 May 2011, at 10:18 p.m.
                • My opinion on the bots. Which is better? It depends.
                  Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 10 May 2011, at 10:20 p.m.
                • My opinion on the bots. Which is better? It depends.
                  Ian Shaw -- Tuesday, 10 May 2011, at 10:25 p.m.
          • Question on the .xg file format
            storm -- Wednesday, 11 May 2011, at 4:05 a.m.
            • Question on the .xg file format
              Michael Petch -- Wednesday, 11 May 2011, at 5:33 a.m.
              • Question on the .xg file format
                storm -- Wednesday, 11 May 2011, at 7:07 a.m.
              • Question on the .xg file format
                leobueno -- Wednesday, 11 May 2011, at 8:51 a.m.
    • Should I switch from GNUbg to XG? What about BGblitz?
      Turz -- Tuesday, 10 May 2011, at 1:00 p.m.
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      ryc -- Tuesday, 10 May 2011, at 8:39 p.m.
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        Frank Berger -- Tuesday, 10 May 2011, at 9:47 p.m.
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        NJ -- Friday, 3 June 2011, at 3:59 a.m.
  • Should I switch from GNUbg to XG? What about BGblitz?
    Henrik Bukkjaer -- Wednesday, 11 May 2011, at 12:23 p.m.
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    Marty Storer -- Wednesday, 11 May 2011, at 7:56 p.m.
    • Should I switch from GNUbg to XG? What about BGblitz?
      Stick -- Wednesday, 11 May 2011, at 11:07 p.m.
      • Should I switch from GNUbg to XG? What about BGblitz?
        Marty Storer -- Friday, 13 May 2011, at 2:29 p.m.
        • Should I switch from GNUbg to XG? What about BGblitz?
          Phil Simborg -- Friday, 13 May 2011, at 4:05 p.m.
        • Should I switch from GNUbg to XG? What about BGblitz?
          Stick -- Friday, 13 May 2011, at 5:15 p.m.