Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:30:09 01/02/04
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On January 02, 2004 at 09:57:38, Jasmine Baer wrote: >I've seen it written that under the following conditions: > >1. Engine vs. Engine match or tournament >2. Held on a single computer with a single processor > >having ponder=ON(or Permanent Brain in the Fritz GUI) will impact the play of >the engines since the each individual engine would not have full access to the >processor during its own turn. > >First, is this true? yes. Since both engines are running, each should get about 1/2 the computational cycles. > >Second, is this issue, if it actually is an issue, something that is eliminated >by running a two-processor system? Partially. What about engines that can use _both_ processors? :) > >And, finally, does anyone have any solid insight on how ponder=off/on or >Permanent Brain works on a Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading? > >Thanks. Same way. PIV with SMT on looks like two slower processors...
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