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Subject: Re: King's performance in Leiden: one note

Author: David H. McClain

Date: 06:28:46 05/19/03

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On May 19, 2003 at 05:01:22, enrico carrisco wrote:

>On May 19, 2003 at 02:39:04, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>Even if there was only 9 rounds, King's performance was stunning when You look
>>at the hardware: King has only AMD XP2200 when Shredder has dual XEON 2800! That
>>dual must be at least 2x faster or maybe 3-4x with hypertreading?!
>>
>>Jouni
>
>Nonsense.  As many posts have shown in the past, Fritz and Shredder do not gain
>much from HT.  In fact, one had nearly 0 gains -- I do not recall which of the
>two it was.
>
>Fritz and Shredder's hardware was roughly 1.74 - 1.78x faster than The King's.
>
>-elc.

Well then the disadvantage The King had playing against a dual processor makes
its win less remarkable?



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