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Subject: Re: Proposal: New testing methods for SSDF (1)

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 10:55:09 04/13/98

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On April 13, 1998 at 11:13:20, Scott Carmichael wrote:

> I solid suggestion IMO. The only suggestion I would like to make is
>that each program be allowed to use it's optimum RAM, not be limited to
>X. Some programs are written to require more RAM due to their dependence
>upon hash tables (ie Fritz) as oppossed to knowledge ( ie HIARCS), and
>so they should be provided with this as to maintain a level playing
>field.

No way.  If Fritz needs more RAM, that is a design decision made by the
Fritz team, and they need to be able to live with the consequences of
this design decision -- they might not get the RAM.

But the SSDF should use decent machines, hopefully nearly the same in
each case, or if they are all different, then at least scatter the games
out rather than letting program X play all of its games on the best
machine.

I use endgame databases, and I access them at the tips.  This beats the
heck of of my hard disk.  Should I be able to mandate a fast SCSI drive?
 No way.

bruce



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