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Subject: Re: But, Re: Questions re P4 3.03 with HT ??

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:15:15 12/10/02

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On December 10, 2002 at 13:25:55, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On December 10, 2002 at 12:21:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 10, 2002 at 11:34:45, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>
>>>It came from the original data in this thread:
>>
>>So?  That is over 6 positions.  Using that to prove that a program searches
>>"fewer
>>nodes with mt=2" is total nonsense, as is the claim that a program +will+ search
>>fewer nodes overall using two threads.  It simply doesn't happen.  And it falls
>>in
>>the same class as the perpetual-motion machine...  It doesn't work...
>
>I'm not trying to prove anything.  But for you to say Vincent is hand-waving is
>a bit much, since he's actually referring to some real data.  This is 6
>positions worth of data, when all the tests you did the other day were only
>using 5 positions.  So you claim one test is meaningless, and the other isn't?


Several positions, run _several_ times, and averaged together to smooth out
the variation...

Big difference...




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