Author: José Carlos
Date: 23:36:40 01/02/01
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On January 02, 2001 at 20:50:07, Christophe Theron wrote: >On January 02, 2001 at 09:26:12, José Carlos wrote: > >>On January 02, 2001 at 09:06:03, Severi Salminen wrote: >> >>> >>>> You look really angry about this :) >>>> Anyway, remember your program is one of the very few that is able to play >>>>strong chess in slow 486's so, from 486's point of view, your program gets less >>>>benefit from fast hardware than others. >>> >>>I don't understand your statement. Why would a program that plays strong chess >>>using 486 benefit less from speedup than a program playing weak chess using >>>486?? Do you have some evidence or is this just a "gut comment"? >> >> It's easy. If program A and program B plays at 2600 in modern hardaware, but >>program A plays at 2200 in a 486, and program B plays at 2000, then program A >>gets less benefit from speed improvement than program B. > > > >Then it's even worse for program B. In this case, "B benefits more from faster >hardware" is a statement created to hide the fact that B sucks somewhere on the >strength/time_control curve. Generally near the origin (fast time controls). > >The "benefits more from faster hardware" is a bullshit. It's an attempt to make >you believe that the program in question will be the best on the hardware of >next year. Which never happens. > >Can you mention a single program that has ever been the best when faster >hardware was available? I mean which has been PROVEN to be really stronger, so >it was really stronger AND it was possible practically to show it (or else the >statement is of very little interest). > >I know of programs that have been proven to be inferior on faster hardware >against the best competitors (Genius), but there has never been any program that >has been proven to be stronger against the best competitors on faster hardware. >It has been said many times for various programs, but then it has never been >proven. > > > > Christophe I think what you say is almost the same as I said. The curve of speed/strength is different for any program, but the statement is used more than it should be. José C.
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