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Subject: Re: Hardware and WCCC limits? 1/4 MB !

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 05:38:55 05/19/04

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On May 19, 2004 at 07:15:54, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On May 19, 2004 at 01:02:26, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:
>
>You obviously never wrote a chessprogram writing such utter nonsense at your
>homepage about executable size.

Vincent, please cool down.

Obviously you know neither me nor my experiences with that theme.

May be you have not noticed, that I am always talking of the size of the
persistent data and exe AFTER COMPRESSING it, e.g. by WinRar.

Regards, Reinhard.

>>On May 19, 2004 at 00:29:42, Joshua Shriver wrote:
>>
>>>Are there any kind of hardware limitations in computer competitions?
>>>
>>>If not, I'd imagine people would just bring a small custom cluster.
>>>
>>>TSCP would beat Hiarcs or Shredder if tscp was parallelized and Hiarcs was on a
>>>486.
>>>
>>>Just an idea; perhaps there should be some kind of limitation.
>>>If not then you're not really testing the strength of the engines, but a
>>>combination of code and hardware. In that case, whoever has the most money has a
>>>huge advantage. Especially if clustering is allowed.
>>>
>>>Just my $0.02, curious to your opinions.
>>
>>Have you ever seen my limitation proposal to that theme at:
>>
>>[http://homepages.compuserve.de/rescharn/Compu/schachfair_e.html]
>>
>>Regards, Reinhard.



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