Author: George Tsavdaris
Date: 04:06:45 04/09/04
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On April 09, 2004 at 06:34:28, Ray Banks wrote: >Quick question - what effect does processor speed have on comparative rankings >between programs ? > >This is on an Athlon 2000, if the same tournament was run say both on an older >slower Athlon 1ghz and say a faster Athlon XP 3200+ (i.e. similar architectures >but variations in speed) would you expect the rankings to be the same ? It would be an interesting question for me if by "the same tournament" you mean: "the engines will play the same openings in the 3 computers". This is really a very interesting experiment and i guess that the results would not be the same, although i don't expect to have many differences. But even if the results would be different and even if we had a different winners in the 3 tournaments, this would not show that an engine is optimized for some hardware speeds, as the factor of luck would have an important role.
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