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Subject: Re: crafty speedup on amd

Author: Zach Wegner

Date: 19:48:29 11/23/03

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On November 23, 2003 at 21:04:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 23, 2003 at 20:57:01, Sean Mintz wrote:
>
>>I did a test of the latest crafty (19.5) using an executable I made with Intel C
>>5.0 (/Ox /G6 /Gr /Ob2 /Qipo optimizations).  My machine is a dual 1.2 ghz athlon
>>MP running at 1.35 ghz with 150mhz fsb.
>>
>>My crafty.rc file has this:
>>
>>ansi off
>>mode normal
>>adaptive 1.4M 6M 192M 1M 48M
>>smpmt 2
>>book on
>>tbpath f:\chess\tablebases\
>>cache 8M
>>learn 7
>>ponder on
>>swindle on
>>flag on
>>log off
>>exit
>>
>>---
>>Crafty v19.5 (2 cpus)
>>
>>White(1): mt 0
>>parallel threads disabled.
>>White(1): bench
>>Running benchmark. . .
>>......
>>Total nodes: 100409437
>>Raw nodes per second: 772380
>>Total elapsed time: 130
>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 4.923077
>>White(1): quit
>>---
>>
>>---
>>Crafty v19.5 (2 cpus)
>>
>>White(1): bench
>>Running benchmark. . .
>>......
>>Total nodes: 98693325
>>Raw nodes per second: 1542083
>>Total elapsed time: 64
>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 10.000000
>>White(1): quit
>>---
>>
>>1542083 / 772380 = 1.9965 x faster
>>
>>
>>Sean Mintz
>
>
>Told you it was better.  :)

this looks rather suspect. the multi-threaded bench is searching less nodes than
the single-threaded. are there any explanations for that? or are you just that
good?



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