Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 23:49:56 07/27/01
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On July 28, 2001 at 02:21:06, Terry McCracken wrote: [snip] > >>I copied the wrong post Dan! He does say one machine! > >*Hyatt/Quote "Nope... no joke at all. Two programs, one machine, my preference >is ponder=on. >>>>>>>both will get 1/2 of the machine and the time controls won't be screwed up." > >Wrong. That's clearly two machines. Let me pull out the relevant part so you >>>can take a gander: >>> >>>"... I ran a test, gnuchess on a single-cpu, vs crafty on a quad pentium-pro >>>200, but using only one cpu." >>> >>>Clearly, he is talking about two different machines > >Yes here he is clearly talking about two machines. > >But the quote above is _one_ machine. Surely (in that case) he is talking about a two-cpu machine. He has a machine with 4 CPU's on it. I have accidentally ran two programs in ponder on a single CPU machine. Not only do they both get blasted, but one is usually better at stealing cycles and gets 70-80% of the CPU. If you want to run with ponder on and a single machine, you need to have two CPU's in it or the results are worthless.
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