Author: Ingo Bauer
Date: 11:45:07 02/08/05
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On February 08, 2005 at 14:39:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Because it is the GUI that is doing the test, not the engine. The feature is undocumented for exactly that reason and because the test is highly doubtfull. I made the mistake to publish it again (It was allready known, but I brought it back to memory of some people) Bye Ingo
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