Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 00:27:00 10/25/04
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On October 25, 2004 at 02:36:44, Tony Werten wrote: >Hi Ed, > >have you made a testrun of 1 game, (hope it reproduces) under the different >settings. > >Most likely the logfiles will show a different (lower) knode speed. I can make >up several excuses for that. > >- At startup, chessengine and interface are fixed to a different processor, >meaning the second chessprogram gets the load of the interface as well (or any >other process that the interface initialises). > >- Engine 2 is initialised on a crappy memory alignment. > >- Time related rounding errors are every time rounded in 1 the first engines >favor. > >- All communication is handled as engine 1 first then engine 2 ( rather than >engine on the move, engine not to move ) so during the whole game, engine 1 gets >every information earlier than engine 2 > > >If you feel the need, I'm pretty sure I can come up with some more :) > >Tony But my procedure has been always 100% the same except for the loaded engine at program start. Also I always reboot before I start a match. The issues you address were valid in match-1, match-2 and match-3, still there is this difference of 4.7%. What happened to Xinix? I can not believe your ranking, has fatherhood troubled your astuteness? Programming while feeding babies? Ed :)
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