Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:21:17 10/06/02
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On October 06, 2002 at 04:49:43, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On October 06, 2002 at 04:44:33, Frank Phillips wrote: > >>Are there any examples of its inefficiencies (relative to modern software) and >>their impact on its relative performance. > >Lack of nullmove, terrible parallel overhead... > >-- >GCP I suspect _everyone_ is going to have "terrible parallel overhead" using that many processors. But that isn't the issue. They were capable of doing 1B nodes per second. If they only did 10% of that it is _still_ way beyond anything running today... Lack of null-move is not a known deficiency. I can name a pretty successful program or two (commercial) that didn't rely on it...
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