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Subject: Re: hardware advantage unimportant

Author: Moritz Berger

Date: 07:09:26 09/14/98

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On September 13, 1998 at 16:25:37, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On September 13, 1998 at 12:10:28, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>On September 13, 1998 at 11:54:40, blass uri wrote:
>>>Not a very good result for Gandalf
>>>It had a hardwar advantage and could not win the match.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>i get good results on the same hardware...
>>
>>gandalfs main strength comes from its evaluation...
>>
>>speed is not such an important matter if you evaluate very good...
>
>Speed is very important for Hiarcs 6. Hiarcs performs much better on a P200MMX
>than on the 3x slower P90 it used here. That's why I don't thing the 10-10
>result is so good for Gandalf on the P200MMX. Statistically, this result will
>put Gandalf some 60 or 70 points under Hiarcs 6 on the same platform.
>
>Enrique

I completely agree. Hiarcs is notorious to gain from faster hardware more than
almost any other program. This used to be the case since Hiarcs 3 at least. To
put it another way: There are few programs that benefit as much from ever faster
PCs as Hiarcs does. This is something very positive to say about a program which
already plays as well on slower hardware like P200MMX ...

Moritz



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