Author: Tony Werten
Date: 21:33:40 09/24/01
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On September 24, 2001 at 04:14:30, Jouni Uski wrote: >On September 24, 2001 at 03:12:18, Tony Hedlund wrote: > >>On September 23, 2001 at 09:04:34, gregory j capace wrote: >> >>>If you have a faster processor, how much strength does this dd to the program ? >>>Does Fritz 6 run any stronger on my 566 mghz, versus a 450 nghz. , like the >>>rating says. How strong would it be on a 1.2 mghz. computer ? >> >>The step from 450 to 1200 MHz have gained 75 points so far. The step from 200 to >>450 gained 79 points. >> >>Tony > >Very interesting! Because 1200/450 = 2.67 and 450/200 = 2.25 there seems to be >diminishing return now?! Also I expect Fritz/Tiger to get 2725 rating in next >list. Hmm. What says Bob? I don't think this is the whole picture. This is just the same version playing on faster hardware and I don't think this is what happened in the past. When cpu speed increases, programmers use (in the new version) part of this speed to fe add more knowledge to their program, just because it is possible now. Pawn structures are a nice example for this. 15 years ago, you couldn't do too much with it, but because of newer cpu's (and mostly bigger memory) you can hash it and now it's free. If you take the same version of a program and just put it on faster cpu's all the time, you will get diminishing returns. If you consider new version as well it's a lot less clear. Tony > >Jouni
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