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Subject: Re: shredder bench program is a horrible tool for measuring speed!!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:39:25 02/08/05

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On February 08, 2005 at 11:27:12, Helmut Conrady wrote:

>On February 08, 2005 at 11:17:33, joseph soney wrote:
>
>>Dual 250 opterons 2 threads=2.52
>>1 thread=2.52
>>its the same speed for 1 or 2 threads in deep shredder 9????
>
>Yes, because it´s a tool only for ONE CPU. One should know that, before he
>writes "horrible" in the main line ...
>
>Helmut

Makes little sense to me.  Why would a multi-threading program only use one CPU
for a benchmark, but use two to actually play?  Crafty will do this either way.
mt=0 or 1, and you run the bench command using one CPU, mt=2 and you run it with
2, etc...



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