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Subject: Re: Conclusion

Author: Mridul Muralidharan

Date: 15:40:57 12/26/03

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On December 26, 2003 at 16:13:26, Luis Smith wrote:

>On December 26, 2003 at 15:34:43, Darren Rushton wrote:
>
>>>Actually what happens, is the 366 is SLOW.  And I mean SLOW.
>>
>>I don't intend to be controversial here, but the conclusion I draw from your
>>results is that Shredder 7 is such a brilliant program it is almost a match for
>>the one of the better amateur programs on hardware that's almost 10 times
>>slower.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Darren
>
>I think you're missing the point of these experiments.  Some people here were
>saying that Crafty isn't a world contender.  Bob could get much better hardware
>than most of the commercials.  He mentioned something about a 32 way box.  Can
>you imagine the speed of Crafty on something like that?
>
>I don't think anyone can count Crafty out after this experiment.

You also need to get decent speedup on those boxes :)
And I hope it is not a shared bus 32 proc bus ;)

A 4/8 cpu opteron against a 32 proc alpha is not fair - for crafty - it would
lose again against say shredder or fritz.

Mridul



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