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Subject: Re: Is there a way?

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 02:20:29 12/14/04

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>Ponder = on is the topic!
>For ponder = off its work perfectly but in the example with the match ProDeo vs.

Of couse the ideal solution is to don't use pondering.
One other idea could be to control the process priority (in Windows)
dinamically.

When a prorgam is not thinking its move you could set its priorirty to "idle"
and rise it again when it has to move.

If the engine is properly written it will take almost no CPU time and let the
other engine have almost 100% of the CPU.
Some engines are more nasty on this, since the use very tight machine code that
the threading system cand hardly deal with. But standard C programs will behave
properly and get a minimal time-slice for the pondering.

I don't know if there is a way in windows to suspend a process like unix has,
which would allow to implement a no-ponder option by default.



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