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Subject: Re: Solution: have hardware classes - Open, SMP, Single processor

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:23:34 04/25/05

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On April 25, 2005 at 16:37:42, Daniel Pineo wrote:

>On April 25, 2005 at 13:25:33, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On April 23, 2005 at 17:19:15, Daniel Pineo wrote:
>>
>>>On April 22, 2005 at 21:27:22, Tony Petters wrote:
>>>
>>>>I hope they force every program to use one CPU with an equal amount of RAM,
>>>>otherwise, the games are not even !
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone disagree with this ?
>>>>
>>>>Is HYDRA going to play with all 32 processors ?
>>>
>>>Why not just have a few hardware classes?
>>>
>>>Open class: any hardware allowed
>>>SMP class:  multi-processor/multi-core hardware allowed, but no specialized
>>>chess hardware
>>>Single core class: only single core processors allowed
>>>
>>>The idea isn't necessarily to make everything _perfectly_ even, but to just give
>>>the lightweights a place to compete.  Like in boxing, not all boxers in a weight
>>>class need to have _exactly_ the same weight, but they are close enough where
>>>talent, and not brute strength, play the dominant factor.
>>>
>>>Also, as a consumer looking to buy a program for a single processor home
>>>computer, this kind of comparison will be more useful than knowing that hydra,
>>>or a 16 SMP version of shredder won.
>>
>>It will be like the US car ads "The best vehicle in its class"[*]
>>
>>[*] consisting of 2 door sedans of over 375 horsepower and selling for $87,000
>>or more, manufactured on a tuesday.
>
>That's better than having the nascar, formula 1, and supersonic rocket cars all
>competing together.

Are you kidding?  I'd pay to see that, and I despise NASCAR.



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