Author: Martin Andersen
Date: 06:54:45 01/01/04
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On January 01, 2004 at 09:46:50, Peter Berger wrote: > >Assume one computer with 500Mhz, time control is 1 min/move. > >a.) Ponder=Off > >Both engines get the full 500MHz when it is their move, and don't do anything >when its the other's move -> fair conditions > >b.) Ponder=On > >Both engines get half the power of the 500MHz (let's call this 250Mhz) most of >the time -> this would be fair conditions too. > >But it can happen that one engine doesn't have a move to ponder. So the other >engine can think, while the first one sits idle. If the thinking one only got >250MHz this would still be fair, but the engine will suddenly get twice the >power for this move, namely the full 500MHz. -> unfair conditions > >Peter Ah, so if you limit the cpu usage to a max of 50% for each program, that would be fair conditions ? Martin.
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