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Subject: Re: King's performance in Leiden: one note

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 13:42:57 05/19/03

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On May 19, 2003 at 09:28:46, David H. McClain wrote:

>On May 19, 2003 at 05:01:22, enrico carrisco wrote:
>
>>On May 19, 2003 at 02:39:04, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>Even if there was only 9 rounds, King's performance was stunning when You look
>>>at the hardware: King has only AMD XP2200 when Shredder has dual XEON 2800! That
>>>dual must be at least 2x faster or maybe 3-4x with hypertreading?!
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>Nonsense.  As many posts have shown in the past, Fritz and Shredder do not gain
>>much from HT.  In fact, one had nearly 0 gains -- I do not recall which of the
>>two it was.
>>
>>Fritz and Shredder's hardware was roughly 1.74 - 1.78x faster than The King's.
>>
>>-elc.
>
>Well then the disadvantage The King had playing against a dual processor makes
>its win less remarkable?

No -- I was replying specifically to the 3-4x speed increase due to the
HyperThreading.  (I.E., the second sentence of the post.)

-elc.



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