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Subject: Re: Common sense say Junior6

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:09:46 03/12/01

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On March 12, 2001 at 15:29:15, Uri Blass wrote:

>On March 12, 2001 at 13:57:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On March 12, 2001 at 13:49:41, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On March 12, 2001 at 13:15:08, Tanya Deborah wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi Guys!
>>>>
>>>>I bought Deep junior6  3 days ago, and now i am interested to know if Deep J6 is
>>>>stronger than Junior6. I mean, running the 2 engines in one single processor.
>>>
>>>The programmer Amir Ban did not claim that Deep Junior is stronger on a dingle
>>>processor and I know that Deep Junior is sligtly slower than Junior6 on a single
>>>processor.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>While I didn't write the code, "slightly slower" should mean 0.1% slower at
>>most.  I don't think you can tell the difference with that small of a speed
>>degradation.
>
>
>I remember that I read that it is not the case for Deep Junior and it is about
>10% slower for one processor.
>
>Uri


OK.  I can't imagine how a program could be written to behave like that, but
I assume it is possible since you saw it somewhere...

In the case of Crafty, .1% is the right number.  In the "main search loop" there
is a single test/branch that is executed needlessly, once per node, for the
SMP version when there is no extra processors being used.




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