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Subject: Re: speedup of cray blitz as published in 1997

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:40:53 09/24/01

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On September 24, 2001 at 23:45:30, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On September 24, 2001 at 22:30:26, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Here written down speedups as claimed by a guy called R. Hyatt
>>by cray blitz for 24 different positoins as they occured in
>>a game:
>>
>>pos  speedup
>>1     2.0
>>2     2.0
>>3     2.0
>>4     2.0
>>5     2.0
>>6     2.0
>>7     1.9
>>8     2.0
>>9     2.0
>>10    2.0
>>11    2.0
>>12    1.9
>>13    1.9
>>14    2.0
>>15    2.0
>>16    1.9
>>17    1.7
>>18    1.8
>>19    2.0
>>20    2.0
>>21    2.0
>>22    1.9
>>23    2.0
>>24    2.0
>>avg   2.0
>>
>>So YOU, Robert Hyatt, claims in an OFFICIAL magazine,
>>called ICCA journal march 1997,
>>an AVERAGE speedup of 2.0 with cray blitz at 2 processors.
>>
>>Now i claim the same with DIEP if i'm not using dangerous
>>extensions (which btw are turned on by default).
>>
>>It appears you hadn't turned them on either (smart guy
>>to publish only speedups without dangerous extensions and only
>>tell in 2001 that you hadn't turned them on).
>
>2.0 isn't a problem, it's >2.0 that gets people up in arms.
>
>Dave


It isn't even 2.0...   I don't have the paper handy now but I seem to recall
that it was 1.9.  Certainly it isn't 2.0 just by inspecting the numbers he
gave...

And the 4 8 and 16 processor tests were worse.  But comparing them to crafty is
very hard because of the different approaches to almost everything from move
ordering to search algorithm...



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