Author: Ritter Rost
Date: 06:38:05 12/03/00
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On December 03, 2000 at 03:37:40, Gregor Overney wrote: >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 The level of personal attacks in CCC has never been as low as under the current moderation. A lively group needs a lively discussion culture to maintain some social coherence. Since its so difficult to conduct a meaningful discussion about computer chess if you aren't a programmer (see the "new paradigm idiocy") or if you aren't a chess player, contribution possibilities are reduced to mere boring bean counting. So a little off topic here and there helps the sanity of this forum.
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