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Subject: Re: Next Palm 61 times as fast? How would that affect chess apps?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:43:09 02/06/02

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On February 06, 2002 at 14:13:03, Roy Eassa wrote:

>http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=2965
>
>"... code that has been recompiled for ARM-based chips is 61 times faster on a
>200MHz ARM processor compared to a 33MHz Dragonball one."
>
>Is that a typo?  Did he mean 6 times?
>
>If it's not a typo, how would a factor of 61 (article actually implies factor of
>62 by saying "faster than" rather than "as fast as") affect the rating of such
>apps as Chess Tiger for Palm and ChessGenius for Palm?

A fairly conservative estimate is 50 ELO increase for each doubling in speed.
With 5.93 doublings, we would have +296.5 ELO increase.

• Re: Next Palm 61 times as fast? How would that affect chess apps? Pham Minh Tri 23:04:05 02/06/02
  • Re: Next Palm 61 times as fast? How would that affect chess apps? Christophe Theron 10:06:49 02/07/02
    • Re: Next Palm 61 times as fast? How would that affect chess apps? Uri Blass 11:00:03 02/07/02
      • Re: Next Palm 61 times as fast? How would that affect chess apps? Pham Minh Tri 01:17:28 02/08/02
  • Re: Next Palm 61 times as fast? How would that affect chess apps? Uri Blass 03:43:22 02/07/02

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