Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Here a chess programmer does not even care to mention CPU speed

Author: Alessandro Damiani

Date: 02:02:59 10/11/03

Go up one level in this thread


On October 11, 2003 at 04:30:36, José Carlos wrote:

>On October 11, 2003 at 01:37:19, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On October 10, 2003 at 13:11:42, José Carlos wrote:
>>
>>>On October 10, 2003 at 12:47:19, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 10, 2003 at 12:37:56, José Carlos wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On October 10, 2003 at 12:10:27, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>What a shame...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    Christophe
>>>>>
>>>>>  You have the right to ignore any post you don't like.
>>>>>  Personally, I couldn't care less about Bas hardware. I'm interested in the
>>>>>problem itself, the nodes and the PV's.
>>>>>  So Bas, thanks for posting your analysis.
>>>>>
>>>>>  José C.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>So you mean that mentionning the processor type and speed together with the
>>>>analysis is useless?
>>>>
>>>>Is it the opinion you want to defend?
>>>
>>>  For me? Yes. Is that bad?
>>>
>>>  José C.
>>
>>
>>
>>Then why mention the hash table size and not the processor type/speed?
>>
>>Why post the entire, long, boring analysis and not just the solution time and
>>score?
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>  Why post boring tounament talbes? Why post boring questions about how to run
>this or that program under this or that GUI? Why post boring commercial
>advertisments about a new version or a patch? Why post boring "how does alpha
>beta search work" questions?
>  Your question and all my questions have the same answer: what I'm interested
>in is not necessarily what the rest of the world is. I respect posts I'm not
>interested in because I know someone is.
>
>  José C.


The question is the value of a posting if one is interested in reading it.

When I see a time indication in a result then I am interested in the hardware
used. If this information is not provided then the time indication is worthless.
Can you compare it? No.

Alessandro



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.