Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 08:31:58 12/20/01
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On December 20, 2001 at 08:49:27, José Carlos wrote: >On December 20, 2001 at 07:17:31, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>When I play Crafty 18.10 against Yace under Winboard 4.2.3 with 60 moves in >>1 or 3 minutes, in almost all games Crafty seems to lose from time (Winboard >>says flag fell)? Actually it's only matter of may be fraction of second, but >>still... >>Has others noticed that? I remember Bob said Crafty never loses on time, but >>here it does... >>(I play with ponder off) >> >>Jouni > > In my machine, Crafty has never lost on time. > I don't know how Crafty measures time, but I've noticed with my program that, >if I run other tasks in the computer, my program thinks it has spent less time >that is has actually done. Could it be this? > > José C. This is because your program doesn't use real time, but cpu time, then. This is a bad idea. Crafty uses real time (on platforms that support it), I think. /David
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