Author: Pekka Karjalainen
Date: 05:57:11 02/15/02
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On February 15, 2002 at 07:27:08, Uri Blass wrote: >I did not get a reply for the question how much rating programs can get from >better hardware. Nobody knows. My answer of "very little" is the best guess you are going to get, I expect. > >Even 1 elo per doubling the speed of the hardware is an answer but I cannot >believe that nothing can be earned by doubling the hardware. It is quite possible and likely to have the following situation: program a beats program b 90% of the time. Human c beats both programs 100% of the time. Now let programs a and b run on double speed hardware. C still beats them 100% of the time. What is the big deal about a few elo points the programs may have gained that have absolutely no meaning? > >If the difference from doubling the hardware is too small to find out then it is >possible to find how much program can earn from being 1000 times faster and use >the result to estimate the gain from being twice faster. > Against other programs or against people? My question still is, what is the point of a few elo points when the programs still suck versus humans? >Uri Pekka
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