Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:42:49 05/18/04
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On May 18, 2004 at 00:50:27, Derek Paquette wrote: >This is a question that has been bugging me as of late, here it is. >Because of increasing speeds in CPU's are programmers going to accept higher >kn/sec (where as it was normal to get 500 kn/sec with fritz7, now a days you >might get 1400 kn/sec) so essentially programs are becoming 'bean counters' > >so will programmers stuff more knowledge into the programs to bring down the >kn/sec once again to where it was before, making the program smarter? >or will we see Shredder 12 at 4000 kn/sec on our standard machines in 5 years? >Or will we see Shredder 12 at 300 kn/sec like we are used too, but just much >much smarter? > >Anyone? I think that there is no need to reduce nodes per second in order to do programs smarter. The main problem in improving the evaluation is not soeed but finding if a change is productive or not productive. Uri
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