Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:06:20 10/26/01
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On October 26, 2001 at 16:17:46, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>when the palm would run slower, the sum of the Nodes would not
>be bigger in the same time stopped with
>an external clock.
>
>how can the program calculate more Nodes overall in an amount
>of seconds, when it is NOT faster?
>
>the speed index, the NPS, the whatever can show whatever it wants.
>but when the node-number overall is higher, in the same number of seconds,
>the machine is faster, isn't it ?
No it is just because the machine thinks that the time passes extremely slowly.
It believes it can compute 10000 nodes per second because its seconds last much
much longer than a real second.
That is why I ask you to check Chess Tiger's clock with an external stopwatch.
Christophe
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