Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 08:32:33 08/01/01
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On August 01, 2001 at 09:56:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 31, 2001 at 13:53:43, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On July 31, 2001 at 13:14:04, jefkaan wrote: >> >>>On July 31, 2001 at 13:03:31, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>>>The event is much less fun for everyone if principle authors don't >> show up. >>> >>>absolutely; but on the other hand, a tourn >>>with different hardware configs can also >>>be organized easily on Fics or so. >>> >>>So imho for such an 'academic'(?) occasion >>>it would be more encouraging for possible >>>participants if 'they' would supply the hardware; >>>i.e. equally fast for all programs.. (so for >>>the time being i would be against multi-cpu's >>>unless every program can run on it). >> >>I think an extra processor is getting to be like a 100 gigabyte disk. There >>might be programs that can't take advantage of 100 extra gigabytes, but that's >>no reason to say that using the space is unfair. >> >>It's 2001. We should be vacationing in space by now. If we can't do that, at >>least let's use machines with two or more processors. Regardless of what this >>particular event should be, people should be developing for SMP. >> >>bruce > > >You can't believe a thing you hear nowadays. Otherwise you encounter this: > >A commercial programmer does some detailed (and flawed) public analysis to show >that SMP is not worth the effort. And then that programmer's program doesn't >get invited to compete in the "best of the best" event because the event is SMP >only, and then he complains "but I was working on an SMP version and I had it >almost ready. Had I known you would only accept SMP programs it _would_ have >been ready." > >How can you make any sense of that? And with that kind of argument, how can >anyone decide whether SMP is "real" or "memorex"???? Not funny, needless to dig up this issue, and flawed too... I know an amateur programmer who for years claimed top chess programs aren't IM and nowadays still does not believe top chess programs aren't GM. Now that is funny.... Ed
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