Author: Leen Ammeraal
Date: 12:43:40 08/27/02
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On August 27, 2002 at 12:41:46, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On August 27, 2002 at 12:39:10, Leen Ammeraal wrote: > >>When playing long (WinBoard) matches on each of my >>two computers, my newer computer (Pentium 3), >>gives a considerably better score for my new program >>version than my older computer, which >>has a Cyrix P166 processor. >>I tried to compensate for the slowness of >>the latter machine by allowing it to >>think longer. >>Has anyone an idea how serious I should take >>the rather disappointing results on this >>older machine? I know very little of hardware, >>but I could imagine, for example, that this >>Cyrix P166 is particularly bad in 64 bit operations, >>so that switching from 32 bit to 64 bit (bitboard) operations >>might make the program stronger on the newer machine >>but weaker on the older one. >>Could this really be the case? > >Yes. Despite that the Cyrix166 is supposed to be as fast as >the Pentium166, there are quite a few cases when it has problems >getting half the speed of the latter. This is really not a very >good CPU, even more so because most programs are optimized for >Pentium, not Cyrix166. > >-- >GCP Thanks. In the future I will trust my newer computer more than the older one, as far as match scores are concerned. Leen
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