Author: William H Rogers
Date: 07:02:56 09/10/98
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On September 09, 1998 at 12:44:16, Shaun Graham wrote: > 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! :)" You forgot about scratch ram, disk i.o., and a few other things that can make a difference between other-wise identical computers.
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