Author: Pham Minh Tri
Date: 23:04:05 02/06/02
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On February 06, 2002 at 16:43:09, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Hi Dann, 200MHz = 33MHz x 2^n --> n < 2.5 --> we would have max +125 Elo increase ;) Or 61 times = 2^n --> n near 8 --> near +400 Elo increase
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