Author: Gordon Rattray
Date: 03:18:26 11/30/01
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On November 30, 2001 at 02:29:12, Slater Wold wrote: >On November 29, 2001 at 21:09:47, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>OK... that is horrible, and it does show that there is little speedup, >>rather than a KNPS computation problem. >> >>No explanation on why this is so of course. But for this position, you >>are certainly correct. It is ugly. > >Yes. The most I have *EVER* seen from DF is about a 1.4x speedup. This is one >of the worst cases. > >The first thing Chessbase will ask you, of course, is to go to task manager, and >look at the CPU time. It is always 100%. (Being both CPU's.) One CPU DF uses >50%. > >I have no explanation, and it seems no one else does either. > >I think I was the first to report this back when I first got my 2x1000mhz >system. No one even seemed to care, including Chessbase. > >Very few people have dual systems. And even less have dual AMD's. And even >less give a damn about chess, much less DF. Perhaps that's why this problem has >gone on for so long, undetected. Agreed, but it may also work the other way too. If software for duals isn't particularly good, then there may not be enough of a motive for people to buy a dual. So the software affectively limits its own market. While Chessbase may not exactly be going bust, in my opinion it isn't exactly making the most of the market either by pissing people off. I do buy from Chessbase, but I'm not as keen a customer as I once was. For example, I no longer trust their marketing claims. Gordon
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