Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: To Bob Hyatt, Fritz Hyperthreading modifications

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:38:06 02/23/03

Go up one level in this thread


On February 23, 2003 at 12:14:07, Charles Worthington wrote:

>I have sent a request (essentially a bribe) for Chessbase to make the
>modifications to the engine we discussed. That extra 20% would sure be nice. I
>also got a dig in that Crafty was way ahead of them!! :-)


Note that 20% is not at issue here.  _any_ SMP program can use hyper threading.
But they may lose a few percent due to poor spinlocks/spinwaits.  But it is only
a few percent, not the full 20-30% you will always get...




This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.