Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:15:48 07/20/00
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On July 20, 2000 at 19:57:14, Ralf Elvsén wrote: >On July 20, 2000 at 18:36:25, Chris Carson wrote: > >> >>1. DT scored 90% against micros from 1988 to 1995. DB is >> at least 100 times faster than DT and todays fastest >> micro's have not closed the gap (P6-200 was released >> in Nov 1997). >> > >I don't want to enter your discussion, just ask a question. >What was the hardware of DT during this period (88-95)? In particular, >how did it evolve? > >Ralf It evolved every year. New chips. More chips. Better search. Better evaluation stuff. Better book. Endgame databases included in search. On and on... just like everybody else. It was _never_ a "static entity" as it seems everyone thinks... It improved each year like the rest of us. But they were so far out in front, nobody 'closed the gap'. Even after being dormant for 3 years, their speed is _still_ so far out in front of everybody else it isn't funny. We wow over 2M nodes per second on an 8-way SMP box. DB does that on _one_ chip and is far more efficient on that one chip with no parallel search overhead. And then they string together 480 of those things to let them peak at 1B nodes per second and suddenly our 2-2.5M (or my 7M on the alpha last summer) suddenly seems a tad "light"...
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