Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 10:18:12 11/11/02
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On November 11, 2002 at 13:02:44, Bob Durrett wrote: >Would the engine perform significantly better using that dedicated operating >system? [As compared to using a commercially available OS] You can get an idea of how much time is used by the OS. On my computer I look under Task Manager and it says: Image Name CPU Time System Idle Process 6:19:14 IEXPLORE.EXE 0:02:16 msdev.exe 0:01:22 Explorer.exe 0:00:53 System 0:00:22 And so on. So I have over 6 hours of idle time, and the next biggest chunk of CPU usage time was by Internet Explorer, of a whole 2 minutes. That means there is 99.5% of the CPU time that could have been used by a chess program. So the question is whether or not a 0.5% increase in speed is going to mean "significantly better" results. I think not.
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