Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:44:30 04/28/00
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On April 28, 2000 at 11:58:05, Jason Williamson wrote: >On April 28, 2000 at 08:59:27, Chessfun wrote: > >> >>All games on one Cel 433. >>Ponder=on. >>Tablebases used at 25 and longer. >>Nunn 1 positions. >>No opening books are loaded. >> >> 1 min game Fritz 6a 10.0 - 10.0 Crafty 17-10 >> 2 min game Fritz 6a 12.0 - 8.0 Crafty 17-10 >> 3 min game Fritz 6a 16.5 - 3.5 Crafty 17-10 >> 5 min game Fritz 6a 16.0 - 4.0 Crafty 17-10 >>10 min game Fritz 6a - Crafty 17-10 running >>25 min game Fritz 6a 7.0 - 6.0 Crafty 17-10 Current score >>60 min game Fritz 6a - Crafty 17-10 Unplayed >>Tourney times Fritz 6a - Crafty 17-10 Unplayed >> >>These results seem to be all over. >> >>As anyone using F6 knows with ponder=on you get a question, >>Permanent Brain on single processor?. >> >>Thanks > >Ponder on with one cpu will only determine which program can suck up more cpu >power faster. ;) >There isn't even a guarantee that the two engines would split it 50/50. I don't know about the system she is running, but NT or Unix _will_ give roughly 50% of the cpu to each program. There is no reason for there to be any serious imbalance. In fact, there are worse problems with ponder=off, as some programs (older chessmaster for certain) didn't block on a read, instead it looped waiting for console input, which would burn cpu even though it wasn't pondering...
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