Author: Ralf Elvsén
Date: 18:23:31 07/20/00
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On July 20, 2000 at 21:15:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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"... Yes, when reading CCs posts the only way I could make it all add up was to assume that DT was the same all the time. Oops, better get back into my shell...
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