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Subject: Re: New Infinite Loop-5, Ver-qual 10 (Crafty 19.12)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:06:10 04/05/04

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On April 05, 2004 at 08:10:34, Igor Gorelikov wrote:

>
>>
>>I mean to say that it is possible that some additional knowledge in Crafty does
>>it significantly slower in nodes per second for Celeron 1ghz and only slightly
>>slower in nodes per second for faster hardware.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Hi Uri,
>
>Crafty 19.16 also plays in Stars Only event on Celeron 2.6GHz 256MB. But I'm
>sure that after 1 Ghz there are a very tiny difference between computers. Even
>8-processor computer cannot crack the chess. Chess magic is still unsolved.


Hi Igor.

My point is that it is possible that 16.19 is 100% faster with faster hardware
when 19.12 is 200% faster with faster hardware.


>(And it is good for humans!)
>"Nodes per second" shows nothing.

Comparison in nodes per seconds between different programs show nothing about
relative strength but comparison in nodes per seconds between the same program
with different hardware may give some important information.

Imagine the following picture:
Crafty16.19 searches 500,000 nodes per second with celeron 1ghz
Crafty16.19 searches 1000,000 nodes per second with Celeron 2.6ghz
Crafty19.12 searches 300,000 nodes per second with celeron 1ghz
Crafty19.12 searches 900,000 nodes per second with celeron 2.6ghz

It is clear in that case that 19.12 gets more speed improvement from the faster
hardware because 3>2.

I do not know if something similiar happens because I did not test Crafty with
different hardwares.

Uri



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