Author: Pekka Karjalainen
Date: 05:52:55 02/15/02
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On February 14, 2002 at 19:13:28, Uri Blass wrote: > >In every finite game when the rules are clear better hardware or more time can >help > Can you prove that it necessarily helps or that it never does harm? I don't think so. >I can believe that software is very important in go and I can believe that the >best program can beat the second best program even when the hardware of the >second best program is 100 times faster but I cannot believe that better >hardware cannot help without a design of the programmer not to use time >intentionally. Yes, it *can* help, but usually it doesn't help noticeably. Therefore most programmers have not spent much time thinking about how to use the increasing hardware speed to their advantage, since they still have much more important basic problems to solve. > >Uri Pekka K.
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