Author: Dan Oetting
Date: 13:56:39 10/19/97
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On October 19, 1997 at 15:47:24, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On October 19, 1997 at 13:53:09, Dan Oetting wrote: > >> >>The easy way to establish the cost basis of a system is to use the >>OEM price for the cpu, memory and external storage. The ideal >>price cap should allow the use of the newest fastest processors >>but would not leave much in the budget for memory or a disk to >>store those 5-man endings. The programmers would be forced to >>balance the resources to find the best match for their program. > >So you would *only* take into account processor, memory, and disk? The three elements processor, memory, and disk have the most effect on the performance of a chess program. Each program will have an optimum balance between the three elements. >Why would you try restrict memory and disk? >bruce If memory and disk were not restricted you would have entries with gigabyte transposition tables in ram and terabyte disk farms for opening books and endgame tablebases. Dan O.
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