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Subject: Re: Thinker 4.6b third after 1st round!

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 15:31:48 06/01/04

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On June 01, 2004 at 18:16:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 01, 2004 at 17:55:14, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>On June 01, 2004 at 13:56:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On June 01, 2004 at 12:03:44, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 01, 2004 at 11:52:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>As for pondering you obviously can't play with ponder on at a uni-processor, so
>>>>>>I don't see how that can come as a surprise.
>>>>>
>>>>>I do it all the time with no problems whatsoever.  So what if each program gets
>>>>>1/2 of the processor?
>>>>
>>>>1/2 cpu, exactly, would be no problem.
>>>>But what if one engine decides to "ponder" with 10 threads, or if the threads
>>>>don't run at the same priority?
>>>>
>>>>What if one engine decides to skip pondering for one move, then the other gets
>>>>100%. That's double punishment.
>>>
>>>That's a stupid engine, too.  :)
>>
>>So?
>>No reason to punish it twice, that just forces everyone to do stupid hacks to
>>keep them at full load.
>>
>>There are other issues as well, ie. if one engine starts hitting TBs heavily,
>>how does that influence cpu load between the programs?
>>
>>What about trashing the cache?
>>Author of engine X has spend many hours fine tuning his memory footprint to fix
>>exactly into the 256 kb. Running a second program completely cripples his
>>engine, he claims, this was _not_ what it was designed for.
>>
>>-S.
>
>
>That is why testing on _one_ computer is generally wrong.  :)

What's wrong with it if you turn pondering off?

-S.



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