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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