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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