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Subject: Re: SSDF oddity

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 16:00:27 10/07/01

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On October 07, 2001 at 18:24:07, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:

>>This goes against the already old urban legend saying that "more knowledged
>>programs" (programs with slower evaluations) will be superior on faster
>>computers (which is clearly denied year after year).
>
>Then why not using a pure "bean counter"? This should beat any program just
>because of the extra fraction of a ply it can reach.
>
>regards
>Franz



I don't understand how you can come to this conclusion using what I said...

I'm not saying that knowledge is useless or that more knowledge cannot beat more
depth, I'm just saying that I believe that there is also dimishing returns from
improved knowledge at deeper ply depths.


    Christophe



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