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Subject: Re: To christophe theron regarding ct.

Author: Jonas Bylund

Date: 10:21:26 04/10/03

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On April 10, 2003 at 12:40:34, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On April 10, 2003 at 12:05:35, Jonas Bylund wrote:
>
>>On April 10, 2003 at 12:02:05, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On April 10, 2003 at 11:37:50, Jonas Bylund wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 10, 2003 at 10:27:57, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On April 10, 2003 at 10:11:21, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On April 10, 2003 at 09:25:09, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On April 10, 2003 at 09:20:15, ERIQ wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>These are all great goals, but I like this order better.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>* A Linux/bsd version of Chess Tiger w/ great gui ie. Eboard or better.
>>>>>>>>* A native ARM version of Chess Tiger for Palm
>>>>>>>>* Chess Tiger 16
>>>>>>>>* ...and a few more projects that I prefer to keep secret
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>basis for order is:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>1.I will have a freebsd system running in about two week hopefully (just waiting
>>>>>>>>on hardware to arrive)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>2.As soon as I could buy a new sony palm I will. So I can win a game from time
>>>>>>>>to time :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>3.And ct16 should be last because ct15 is already too strong!! whether it's
>>>>>>>>first or last on that silly list that everone likes, I can't beat it on a 486
>>>>>>>>comp. And yes I've tried shamlessly
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Just my two cents.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  Sign,
>>>>>>>>     Eriq
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>a dual version of CT15 would kick more butt than ct16 or working at the unknown
>>>>>>>freebsd. note that freebsd allows multiprocessing but multithreading at it i
>>>>>>>cannot advice.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I think a dual version of CTX would be great! maybe we should have a hands up
>>>>>>here, to see if we can influence the order of things ;) (note: people with dual
>>>>>>processor systems votes count double, ok maybe only 1.7 :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Jonas
>>>>>
>>>>>Some people are simply too lazy or have too much bugs in their software to get
>>>>>stuff parallel well to work.
>>>>>
>>>>>It will be always like that.
>>>>
>>>>Well i don't know where that came from, but i am quite sure that an accomplished
>>>>programmer like CT would have no problems making Tiger SMP.
>>>
>>>in which case he is just plain lazy now.
>>
>>I think the fact that he have expressed other priorities than SMP is more
>>accurate than your guessing, maybe you are too lazy to ask him yourself?
>
>No my viewpoint is that tiger is a too buggy engine to get SMP easily, but we
>will never find out, as he's too lazy to even try that. No doubts that you can
>work forever at forward pruning and such stuff. With or without SMP.

What ever made you think that a "buggy" program could make the top 3 of the
strongest programs today?? (atleast as buggy as you suggest)

When he says he has other priorities, then what makes you conclude from that,
that he's lazy? a case of projection perhaps?

>But if you first get a near to factor 2 faster with SMP with some effort then
>you have your hands free too, to toy there. You do not make up for a factor 2
>simply with the same engine.

As is understand CT it is a question of priorities and not "To SMP or not to
SMP"

>Nowadays new chips have SMT too. Within a few years that will work better on
>coming cpu's than it does now. perhaps amd even will get it one day. that would
>be awesome.

I agree if you can and don't have other priorities then go ahead, prepare your
program for the future instead of waiting 'till it is too late.

>But Tiger will be still single cpu then most likely, which is a shame for such a
>good engine.

Priorities aside, i agree (if that is the case indeed)

Jonas



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