Author: blass uri
Date: 03:18:47 05/22/00
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On May 22, 2000 at 06:11:59, blass uri wrote: >On May 22, 2000 at 04:31:58, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>On May 22, 2000 at 03:34:28, blass uri wrote: >> >>>On May 22, 2000 at 01:38:12, Jouni Uski wrote: >>> >>>>On May 22, 2000 at 01:27:53, blass uri wrote: >>>>> >>>>>They do not indicate it because you do not know what is the rating improvement >>>>>from 4 processors relative to single 450Mhz. >>>>> >>>>But I know, it's at least 100 points as comp-comp games have indicated! >>>> >>>>Jouni >>> >>>You cannot know because the difference in comp-comp games does not have to be >>>the same as comp-human games and I am also not sure that the difference in >>>comp-comp games is 100 points because the ssdf did not test the new hardware. >>> >>>We can know the difference between p200 and K6-450 but we cannot know the >>>difference between k6-450 and better hardware because it is possible that there >>>is diminishing returns from hardware. >>> >> >>Hasn't Heinz new book conclusion: there is no proof about diminishing returns >>so far... >> >>Jouni > >There is no proof so we do not know if there is diminishing return or there is >not. > >Uri The only way to prove that there is not diminishing return is by games and there are not many comp-comp games at tournament time control to compare. We know that there is no significant diminishing return when you upgrade from p200 to K6-450 but we do not know what happens when we upgrade from K6-450 to better hardware. Uri
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