Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 10:24:31 11/11/02
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On November 11, 2002 at 13:18:12, Russell Reagan wrote: >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. Thanks. I guess the comparison I was fishing for was: Chess engine operating under a dedicated operating system versus chess engine operating under a commercially available [general-purpose] operating system. The comparison would have to be made with the engine running in both cases. Bob D.
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