Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 08:05:09 03/28/99
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On March 27, 1999 at 19:01:40, Adnan wrote: >On March 27, 1999 at 12:42:47, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>The results depend on which "equal hardware" you are using. If you get wo >>quad-Xeon computers (like Bob's), and match Crafty (using its SMP code) against >>the same programs you will get better results for crafty, as the other programs >>will only be wasting three of the four processors (and crafty will be using the >>four). > >It is immaterial whether or not Crafty would do better on four processors >because other programs won't even work on four processors. The question is >how Crafty does under windows compared to Fritz, Junior and Hiarcs. The simple >asnswer is that Crafty is weaker, much weaker. > >By the way, 99% people who play chess do not have a 4 processor computers >anyway. Crafty is not designed for the "99% of people who play chess and don't have a 4 processor computer". If you want to take a bunch of commercial programs, pretend that Crafty has been developed with the same market in mind, and say that "gee, Crafty is no good", well, that's up to you. But how much sense would it make to say to the Deep Blue team: "here, you have only one processor, and it's not smashing programs like it used to! Obviously it isn't very good." Crafty is capable of using 16 processors, maybe more, I don't know exactly. Fritz would probably love to have a gigabyte of ram. Whatever. If you are trying to compare program quality, you can't cripple one of them, then say "look, the other one is way better". Well, actually you can, but it sounds silly. Dave Gomboc
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