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Subject: Re: proposal on machine speed at WMCCC

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:13:03 10/23/97

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On October 23, 1997 at 16:50:45, Chris Whittington wrote:

>
>Ok, I'll buy that. How about using the average of several programs to
>establish this 'chessmark'.
>
>They'ld (the averaging programs) have to be available for verification
>testing.
>
>They'ld have to be drawn from a pool of varying types, eg not all fast
>ones, not all commercial ones. Mixed asm and C. Say Crafty and Ftitz as
>fast representatives. Rebel and Genius as medium speed ones, CSTal and
>Hiarcs as slow ones. Three use C, three use asm. Use masses of hash
>table.
>
>That's six programs, test them on average on time taken to get to a
>particular point on say the BT 2630 test ....
>
>Chris

.asm programs are a problem... they won't run on an alpha, or if they
do using the odd DEC tool for that, they run at grossly exaggerated
slow speeds...

I was thinking of a non-chess benchmark...  something that maybe
sorts, shuffles memory, randomly probes a large array and so forth.
Although several chess programs could certainly be used...  But a single
contrived thing would work.



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