How is Crafty's performance on the Macintosh compared to other platforms?

Although Crafty is a relatively strong Macintosh chess program, it could be performing much better. Crafty is essentially an elaborate 64-bit calculator. On other 32-bit platforms, 64-bit support is provided by the gcc compiler.

On the Macintosh, 64-bit support is provided by a C++ class. The C++ class is much slower than gcc's built-in data type. Better performance is a high priority.

Currently, several compilers are being investigated as possible alternatives. More.

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