Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:43:22 02/07/02
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On February 07, 2002 at 02:04:05, Pham Minh Tri wrote: >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 61<2^6 I guess that Dann got 5.93 from solving the equation 2^x=61 I think that you are confusing between n^2 and 2^n(this is the only way that I can understand why you think that n is near 8 because if you solve the equation n^2=61 you get n that is near 8) Uri
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