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Subject: Re: SURPRISING RESULTS P4 Xeon dual 2.8Ghz

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 07:58:51 12/17/02

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On December 17, 2002 at 10:10:46, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>Hello,

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>
>Best regards,
>Vincent

Vincent:

Please help me to understand this.  I had the impression that a software
package's design makes a huge difference in how well that software will utilize
a given hardware package.  In the past, you talked about the advantage of
portability.  The "ideal" chess engine would run optimally on "anything."

It seems to me that evaluation of the suitability, of a particular hardware
configuration, for chess purposes must be measured using several or many
different chess software packages.

How do you know, for sure, that your program will run properly on the hardware
you're discussing?  How do you separate out the evaluation of the hardware from
the software?  Doesn't performance depend on both?  If you get poor performance,
how do you isolate the problem to the hardware?

Bob D.



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