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Subject: Re: HW based Crafty

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 15:16:20 03/30/02

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On March 30, 2002 at 17:49:51, martin fierz wrote:

>>If I only speedup Crafty by 50% then perhaps using more time would be a
>>practical way to do the same experiment.  But what if I speedup Crafty by 500%?
>>Of course, at first I do no expect to see gains of 500%, hell, I would be happy
>>with 50%.  But this is just the beginning.  Crafty at 100M nps would be a *very*
>>interesting thing.  And that is bascially my ultimate goal.
>aha! now you're talking :-) that was my point - if you only expect to get it to
>twice the speed, you can always test it with more time. but if you have set your
>sights to higher goals, and this is just a test to see how things go - then it
>is a different matter entirely, and i agree with you that it's impractical to
>test it in "real time" if that means that one game lasts a week!
>i ran my self-tests up to the point where the last match took one week to
>complete, and the next level would have been 1-2 months i guess, so i stopped
>there...
>
>aloha
>  martin


If I speedup Crafty 50% and see no gains, then, well, that would put me into an
interesting place:

1.) What speedup DO I need to see a gain?  100%?  200%?  1000%?

2.) Maybe it's not possible at all to get a gain.


Of *course* I will take route number 1.  ;)



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