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Subject: Re: Enrique's Cadaqués Tournament: Shredder beats Junior

Author: José Carlos

Date: 07:35:52 01/16/01

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On January 16, 2001 at 10:18:00, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On January 16, 2001 at 04:17:22, José Carlos wrote:
>
>>On January 15, 2001 at 22:19:03, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>
>>>If a program has a better O(f(n)) algorithm, at some point it will dominate.
>>
>>  Just in case someone does not know what this means:
>>
>>  Suppose a car race with two cars. Car A acceletares very fast, but has a top
>>speed of 100 mph. Car B needs much more time to accelerate, but it can get 150
>>mph. With little time, car A will get more distance than car B but, given enough
>>time, B will pass A and win the race.
>>
>
>
>So there really ARE programs that do proportionally better given longer time
>controls and/or faster CPUs than other programs (which do proportionally better
>with shorter time controls and/or slower CPUs)?
>
>Despite Christophe's many protestations to the contrary?

  I don't think I have experience enough to say Christophe is wrong, because
he's in this business since a long tima ago, and started my program less than 2
years ago, but, IMHO, the answer to your question is yes. Just in my opinion. I
posted my arguments in this forum, so you can search in the archives, if you
want, and decice whether I'm right or wrong.

  José C.



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