Author: Gregor Overney
Date: 00:37:40 12/03/00
I can read commercials about buying computers at CCC, political discussions about a countries elections, and tons of people publishing their results about engine vs. engine on a single CPU. Well, those "limited" engine vs. engine posts might just be acceptable, but the others are definitely not suitable for this group. Either we get rid of moderators or they start doing their job. CCC is not getting faster by adding messages that are absolutely not related to CCC. BTW, why do I not like engine vs. engine wars running on the same CPU? Some chess programs rely on extremely fast searches. Other rely more on clever evaluation functions and search much less nodes. For the first type of engines, frequent cache flashes are a much harder penalty than for those engines that do not search a la brute force. So, if you have the need to test your engine, but you have only one CPU available, try some free chess server to compete with others. Otherwise, give those engines a change to "maxout" their performance on a "undisturbed" CPU. A dual CPU system is more or less acceptable. - And use two identical systems since a comparison of Crafty running on PII/300 compared to a run on PowerPC 400 MHz does not provide too much useful input. If you just want to find out how your system compares, check out SpecINT2000 since it contains Crafty as one of its test programs (see http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/CINT2000/186.crafty/docs/186.crafty.html). Gregor
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