Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 08:09:06 12/17/02
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On December 17, 2002 at 10:58:51, Bob Durrett wrote: >On December 17, 2002 at 10:10:46, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>Hello, > ><snip> > >> >>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." Truth is, you're right. >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? Intelligence? It's not like you can pop it through an algorithm or formula and produce an answer. You need to analyze data. The more results you analyze and compare, the better the science. -Matt
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