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Subject: Re: Crafty 14.5 peformance on the Mac

Author: Carsten Kossendey

Date: 19:56:04 01/27/98

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On January 27, 1998 at 22:41:12, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
wrote:

>On another topic, I have another result in the
>Crafty 14.5 "a3" test, that is to say:
>(book off, ponder off, hash 6M, hashp 2M, sd 9, a3)
>
>84654 nps - Mac G3/300 (cpu 100%)
>41608 nps - Mac 7300/180 (604e) (cpu 100%)

The Mac port will always report 100% CPU usage no matter what. I didn't
feel like going into the details of the PPC "Performance Manager"
implementation. 100% is usually correct however. Crafty/Mac isn't quite
multitasking friendly (actually it simply hogs the CPU) so the only
slowdown should be caused by DMA accesses and such - Apple's Video
Player chops somewhat off of those 100% for example.

>Last I checked, the Alphas were doing the best on this test - what's
>an Alpha number like these days?

The Alphas were doing best in raw performance, but not in nps/clock ;)
Anyhow I guess it's somewhere between 150k and 225k nps.

>(terminal output for the G3 was:)
>time: 35.81  cpu:100%  mat:0  n:3031491  nps:84654
>              ext-> checks:51451 recaps:19782 pawns:24 1rep:44871
>              predicted:0  nodes:3031491  evals:1220247
>              endgame tablebase-> probes done: 0  successful: 0
>              hashing-> trans/ref:20%  pawn:92%  used:w96% b92%



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