Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:34:54 09/08/98
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On September 08, 1998 at 09:09:44, Jouni Uski wrote: >On September 08, 1998 at 08:41:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 08, 1998 at 05:07:23, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>When I run pure wcrafty.exe I get in P90 about 17000 NPS, but under winboard >>>about only 5000 NPS - is this normal? >>> >>>Jouni >> >>absolutely not. It should not change one bit, in fact. However, there >>are some known bad things to do when using winboard: >> >>1. running another chess engine on the same machine at the same time. >>This simply doesn't work. >> >>2. if you are logged on to a chess server, typing in the ICS window will >>kill crafty's performance, because winboard takes a good bit of time to >>handle the keyboard input plus sending/receiving stuff from the chess >>server, which slows crafty *way* down... >> >>3. don't forget hash size. Winboard takes memory. Maybe enough that your >>default (crafty.rc file) hash size becomes too large to fit into real memory >>and makes things start paging.. > >But I don't run other engine, I am not logged to anywhere and I only use >small hash! > >Jouni In that case, no reason for it. I just ran on my wife's pentium pro 200, using win95, winboard and crafty 15.18 (as released). The NPS didn't change whether I ran crafty in a dos window or under a stock winboard 4.0 that I downloaded to test that machine. So no idea why you see it slow down by 1/3... I know of many using winboard to play (running crafty) on ICC... we don't see this at all..
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