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Subject: Re: Reason for Shredder's "weak" hardware in Graz

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 04:22:02 11/26/03

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On November 26, 2003 at 02:27:33, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On November 26, 2003 at 01:46:50, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>"Shredder was supposed to run on a similar quad machine, but this was not
>>delivered in time, so that Stefan Meyer Kahlen had to use a relatively modest 2
>>x 3,06 GHz system."
>>
>>Amateurish
>>
>>Jouni
>
>     It is still my opinion that the influence of
>     the hardware is much overestimated. If Shredder
>     wins the WCCC nobody will care. And despite
>     the "weak" hardware, Shredder has so far done
>     very well.
>     Kurt

That's very true. Also the hardware is _hardly_ weak! I suppose the four-way
unit would give a small speedup and benefit, mostly in the basic endings:o)

Terry



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