Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:17:27 07/05/03
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On July 05, 2003 at 07:05:17, Sune Fischer wrote: >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. I agree with the second part that you cannot catch bugs that happen when you do not restart the program. I do not agree that restarting the program takes even longer because of hash. programs do not need big hash in this kind of test and 1 Mbyte is clearly enough. Uri
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