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Subject: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . .

Author: William Penn

Date: 13:27:54 08/15/03

I have had a 500MHz Celeron/256MB system for quite a few years. I just bought a
new 2.6GHz Celeron/512MB computer and was expecting my chess software to run
about 5X faster. It doesn't!? After considerable comparisons and benchmarking,
it's clear that it runs about 2.2X faster. My tests & benchmarks are based on
kN/s in infinite analysis mode using various practical chess positions and the
Shredder 7.04 UCI engine in the CB GUI.

What is the most important single other factor (besides processor speed) that
would increase the speed of this engine in terms of kN/s? I'm sure that more RAM
wouldn't do very much. Is it "BUS speed", or "memory speed", or "processor cache
size", or "processor type", or what? I'm not interested in minor factors, just
the most important one.
WP

Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . . Aaron Gordon 15:10:17 08/15/03
- Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . . William Penn 12:27:15 08/17/03
  - Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . . Aaron Gordon 17:16:55 08/17/03
- Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . . Jason Michael Rogers 15:52:44 08/16/03
  - Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . . Aaron Gordon 16:23:23 08/16/03
    - Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . . Jason Michael Rogers 07:03:09 08/18/03
      - Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . . Aaron Gordon 09:34:38 08/18/03
Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . . William H Rogers 14:54:28 08/15/03
Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . . Rex 13:54:28 08/15/03
Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . . Dan Andersson 13:40:17 08/15/03
Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . . Timothy J. Frohlick 13:32:00 08/15/03
- Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . . William Penn 13:48:31 08/15/03
  - Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . . Keith Long 13:51:23 08/15/03
    - Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . .Shreddermarks & kN/s William Penn 21:51:17 08/15/03
      - Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . .some Fritz7marks William Penn 23:21:40 08/15/03

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