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Subject: Re: SSDF There is something wrong about doubling the speed ?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 01:44:05 12/06/02

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On December 06, 2002 at 04:18:38, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 06, 2002 at 03:47:31, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On December 05, 2002 at 16:52:06, Roy Eassa wrote:
>>
>>>1200 MHz Athlon results only:
>>
>>I read several times that doubling the speed account for at least 50 Rating
>>points, but if you consider Chess Tiger 15 performance on a mere K6 450 Mhz
>>which is less than half the speed of an AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz, the difference is
>>less than that.
>
>I think that you miss the statistical error and it is also not clear that
>you get always at least 50 elo from doubling the speed when the hardware get
>faster.
>
>Diminishing returns is possible.
>
>Uri

That is true, but it would be interesting to find out what is the breaking point
where the diminishing returns take effect, there has to be a breaking point in
hardware's speed where the difference in speed no longer is important.

Pichard.



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