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Subject: Re: Interesting position

Author: Alain Lyrette

Date: 20:17:31 05/14/01

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On May 14, 2001 at 13:16:33, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On May 14, 2001 at 09:52:33, Steve Maughan wrote:
>
>>Christophe,
>>
>>>Chess Tiger 14.0 (AMD K6-2 450, 6Mb hash) avoids Rxb3 instantly (it plays g6).
>>>
>>>Chess Tiger 14.1 for Palm (PalmIIIx 26MHz, no WS, 48Kb hash) takes 137s to
>>>avoid Rxb3, plays Qxh4, then takes 167s to play g6.
>>
>>Interesting.  May I ask what speed differential you're getting on the Palm
>>version?  I guess it must be about 1/300 of the speed of the AMD K6-2 i.e. about
>>800 nps.  Am I close?
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Steve
>
>
>
>Yes you are close.
>
>I get approx 500 nps on the Palm (less in the opening, more in the endgame).
>
>On the K6-2 450 I get typically 150000 nps (more or less). So the PalmIIIx
>@26MHz (no WS) is indeed 300 times slower...
>
>After the release of Tiger 12 I have rewritten a number of internal structures
>and routines in order to use 16 bits words as often as possible because the
>68000 is more comfortable with these.
>
>It worked, and I even got a speedup on the PC (I think it is because the L1
>cache is less saturated if I use a lot of 16 bits integers instead of 32 bits
>ones).
>
>But I still believe I could optimise further by taking into account some other
>architectural differences.
>
>
>
>    Christophe
Mmmm...very interesting.O.k then ...how much nps can we expect from your program
on a pocketPC running on a strongarm 206 mhz?



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