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Subject: Re: Hardware Correction !!!

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 09:55:04 04/14/02

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On April 14, 2002 at 12:47:41, Christophe Theron wrote:

>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.
>

He quoted a joke out of an email but forgot to quote the smiley ;). Out of
context I would conclude he was fooling around nevertheless.

Peter
>
>
>>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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