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Subject: Re: HYDRA vs RYBKA !!

Author: Zappa

Date: 09:38:24 12/13/05

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On December 13, 2005 at 11:23:12, Joshua Shriver wrote:

>Didn't mean to upset you.  I thought Hydra ran on a regular x86 based machine,
>but what made it special was that it used custom FPGA boards for evaluation.
>
>If that's so, then running on the main machine requires no code change.. and if
>there was an API to access the FPGA boards then you could use that to interface
>with them.
>
>I dont think my comment was to farfetched.
>
>Josh
>
>>I can't stand comments like this.
>>
>>In order to port an engine to hardware, you basically have to rewrite it from
>>scratch (admittedly using the same ideas, but still).  It'd only be 2 years of
>>work or so  . . .
>>
>>anthony

I guess what annoys me is people here have a habit of saying "oh if engine X ran
on big hardware it would kick ass" without realizing that getting it to work on
said hardware is a huge amount of work.

anthony



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