Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:23:41 02/01/04
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On February 01, 2004 at 23:21:11, Russell Reagan wrote: >On February 01, 2004 at 20:58:08, James T. Walker wrote: > >>The Ghz of the two CPU's are not directly comparable. > >Umm, aren't you comparing them? > >>I own 3 (ea) XP2400+ machines so I know a little about their speed. Crafty runs >>around 700-800 Knps on my machines. > >I only own one XP2400+, and it runs Crafty 19.3 at over 1Mnps (using the 'bench' >command). I think mine might have 384 KB of total cache, and some XP2400+'s only >have 256 KB of cache, which could make a big difference for Crafty. I've never seen a processor with a cache size that isn't a perfect power of two, as the direct-mapping used for set associative cache depends on using the rightmost N bits of the address, requiring a power of two size. > >>At this moment Crafty has a rating of 2330 in my database and >>Hiarcs 9 has a rating of 2449. That's a difference of 119 Elo points. I may >>not have the exact programs that were running on ICC today but they are close >>enough for educated guesses. My guess is that Crafty was the favorite because >>of it's ability to run on faster hardware. > >What version of Crafty did you use? I think the latest version (19.10?) is quite >a bit stronger with some of the new options like DETECT_DRAW.
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