Author: Gregory Owett
Date: 10:04:58 02/10/05
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On February 10, 2005 at 11:46:33, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 10, 2005 at 10:20:17, Gregory Owett wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>Do the engines play with equal chance? No. >> >>Note, as long as the programs run on different kind of machines, the result will >>be only relative. >> >>As if the racing drivers drove cars of categories varied. Logically, one >>couldn't classify them according to their own value. > >In an automobile race, do they put everyone in exactly the same brand of race >car? > >In a bicycle race, do they put everyone on exactly the same bicycle? > >No, there are often differences in teams differences in equipment etc. > >Some people might write chess prgrams for the Mac, but not everyone is going to >do that. Should they be disqualified? > >What if Hydra or Deep Blue wanted to enter? Should they be disqualified? > >What if a program was written only for Linux. Should it be disqualified? > >What if only free compilers are available to a given author, and not the >fancy-pants expensive ones. Should that program be disqualified? Or perhaps >all the others? > >What if you have spent months preparing your program for SMP and you have >purchased an expensive multiple CPU machine? Should you disable all the CPUs >except for one? > >Have you ever seen the movie "Around the world in 80 days"? >The notion was "Whoever gets there first -- by whatever means -- wins." > >That is what kind of a contest this is. It is not better than a uniform >platform event but it is not worse either. I saw many Grand Prix and Rally. Both are interesting, but I prefer the Grand Prix. Question of taste.
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