Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:47:41 04/14/02
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On April 14, 2002 at 07:10:22, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>>>...
>>>This match could become more interesting than I'd thought. We'll see.
>>
>>
>>It might be as instructive for you as for me...
>>
>>But it looks like Comet is going to win easily.
>
>May be, the advantage due to use of the P166 is way too large. I 'd guess that's
>already a performance factor of 20 (or even larger ?).
I think the speed ratio P166MMX/DragonBall is more than 40.
>Nevertheless, the SSDF games against CSTal show that CTP is always dangerous,
>though CSTal is running on a P200. I wouldn't claim that CSTal is weaker than
>Comet.
>
>After all, you have the big advantage, that there is less time to discard the
>good moves in higher iterations, because you don't reach them thanks to slower
>hardware.
>
>Peter just mailed to me that Comet's play is more convincing on 80486 than on
>P166.
Come on! This explanation is absurd!
No offense intended, but it does not make sense.
>May be my prog is a bit too antique. It had been tested and optimized for too
>long on slow hardware. When all the users tested on Pentium, I still used my
>80386.
I'm STILL using my 386sx20MHz to test against Genius5. :-)
Christophe
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