Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:19:03 04/14/02
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On April 14, 2002 at 12:55:04, Peter Berger wrote:
>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.
OK, I understand now. :-)
You got me Uli. :-)
Christophe
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