Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 11:35:39 11/10/01
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On November 10, 2001 at 14:25:10, K. Burcham wrote: > > >"Actually you forgot to take into account improvements in shredder >positionally, and a bigger hashtable". > >no, i did not. i was aware of the changes in the future in program and software >improvements, including hash improvements, ram capacity improvements and >efficiency. if you notice i used one specific program as an example, as we know >that program today, as shredder5. i could have used any program for this >example. > >kburcham Well compare this. Branching factor used to be real huge for bit older programs. Like up to 10.0 for Schach 3.0 when i run it overnight. It'll never get far beyond 10,11 or 12 ply. Reaching 13 is pretty impossible. That was a program from the time that programs *did* have a hashtable though. We can't look much in the future, but definitely heat is getting such a major problem now for future generations of processors that we won't see a 20Ghz machine soon. Getting to 1Ghz was easy. Things are more tough now. See what kind of weird things intel has done to the P4 in order to let it run 2Ghz. I really look forward to see how the future 32 bits processors are going to work. 64 bits processors we already hear 10 years now that they're coming, but business applications do not need them. All they need is a 64 bits FPU that's it, and the 386dx already had that one.
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