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Subject: Re: A question for winboard experts

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 04:05:17 07/05/03

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On July 05, 2003 at 06:52:29, Günther Simon wrote:

>On July 05, 2003 at 06:25:20, Frederic Louguet wrote:
>
>>>Do you have the feature done=1 in your program?
>>>Take a look at the link below, where someone asked
>>>a similar question in the Winboard forum:
>>>http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/messages/50687.htm
>>
>>With "done=1", the program starts faster the first time, yes. However, Winboard
>>itself takes 10 seconds between each game in a n-games match, and this is really
>>annoying :)
>
>Well this gives a delay of around 17' after 100 games ;-)

If these 100 games are at 5 sec per game this delay doubles the tournament time.

>Have you ever tried Joris' WBTM (WinboardTourneyManager)?
>I use this almost exclusively, because I can run round robin
>and swiss tourneys too, moreover I can save the debug files
>one after one not in a single file only.
>I am talking about WBTM because there are some options
>in its config like:
>
>#    Runner interval in milliseconds. Runner will see every N milliseconds if
>game is finished or another is ready to start.
>     RunnerInterval         30000
>
>#    ScheduleInterval in milliseconds. Schedule will see every N milliseconds if
>runner state should be switched.
>     ScheduleInterval       30000
>
>BTW as you might have thought, it creates batch files which start the
>created games, may be if you set those intervals to a very low number
>you get what you want, as WB is always new started and you say your
>program starts fast in the first game :)

If winboard is started over it's no good.
Restarting the program takes even longer, you have to free and reinitialize the
hash (~ 1 sec for any decent size hash), and you don't get the level of testing
you want because you don't catch the bugs there might be in not restating the
program.
Winboard would still do this delay thing, it seems to be at the startup and not
at closing down.

I've found that when playing from pgn's or fen's with Galis it only does it
every other game. It's quite clear that it runs two fast games in a row, then
pauses, then two fast game, then a pause.
You really get to dislike that pause I tell you :)

-S.
>The link if you are interested (I am still using version 0.42):
>http://koti.mbnet.fi/~jorio/tourney/
>
>Regards,
>Günther



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