Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:42:21 11/19/02
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On November 19, 2002 at 16:33:40, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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 in other words, no evidence is acceptable?
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