Author: enrico carrisco
Date: 21:11:20 12/20/04
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On December 20, 2004 at 19:57:51, Derek Paquette wrote: >On December 20, 2004 at 17:49:33, enrico carrisco wrote: > >>Just received my Deep Junior 9 and was a little disappointed that it appears to >>have the same problem as Deep Junior 8 initially did: >> >>It appears you cannot reduce the number of threads to one. >> >>It allows you to change this in the parameters menu but when I check the kN/s >>and CPU usage -- both indicate two threads are being used. Since I primarily >>purchased this to run full ponder engine tests vs. other engines (1 CPU per >>engine), I'm a bit up a creek. Buying the SMP version was just an afterthought >>since most of the machines I test with are duals (why not?) However, if I knew >>it would knockout my primary purpose for purchasing it and cost $50, I may have >>reconsidered. :) >> >>Anyone else notice the same problem? >> >>-elc. > >I suppose this directly stops tests between hiarcs 10 and dj9 on the same >machine, > >is this going to knock Hiarcs 10 distribution date back? >It seems like a small deal to maybe some, but i wonder if it can really affect >soe of your tests???? We don't adjust our release dates based on other engines. If they are available to test against, of course we will run matches to gauge performance (as would any developer.) There's also alot more that goes into a release of HIARCS than if it can defeat engine X or Y in a match. Of course we want the engine to be well-rounded for whatever use the customer decides to put it to, but to heavily weight engine vs. engine performance above anything else -- well, it just isn't our interest. In my opinion, much of that works itself out if you are generally improving the engine with a wide scope. Anything else, in my opinion, is just tuning against competition. -elc.
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