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Subject: Re: significant math

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 13:33:40 11/19/02

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On November 19, 2002 at 16:31:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 19, 2002 at 16:24:36, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On November 19, 2002 at 16:22:14, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>You can't prove either to be clearly better than the other, but you can give >evidence that they are comparable in terms of performance.
>>
>>You haven't done that. You've shown that they reach similar NPS.
>>
>>NPS =/= performance
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>
>ANd they play similarly when using equal hardware.  Is _that_ also ignorable???

Yes, very easily.

It might be that Yace is actually a lot faster internally but has
more bugs in the evaluation, or that it's evaluation isn't as well
tuned, or that the search isn't as good.

Maybe Crafty is actually a lot faster but (insert same argument here).

...and the net result is that even though there are big speed differences
the programs play similarly.

--
GCP



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