Author: Shaun Graham
Date: 09:44:16 09/09/98
Of course different type of components effect programs differently but what i am concerned with is what is most critical outside of cpu and ram? What i mean by this is that i have found that programs running on different comparable machines(same amount of ram, same cpu speed.) still quite often perform differently. For example in the mclane summer tournament the chessmaster program has been hanging, when on my system it absoulutely never hangs under any circumstances. I have also seen many cases where programs running on P200mmmx systems with 32 megs of ram can calculate different amounts of variations in the same position. I'm not a hardware specialist but i think the evidence of this sort of behavior is strong enough to suggest that there is some other critical factor besides processor speed and ram. The reason that i'm so interested is that performance by various programs using the same type of hardware seem to(At least in my experience)occasionally perform not only differently but SIGNIFICANTLY differently. An example being CM 5555's performance in the summer tournament. The results of this tournament are not typical of results i have grown to expect from 5555, and i think that possibly the hardware configuration causes an anomaly of some sort in the programs operation resulting in worse results. "Just a theory! :)"
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