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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