Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 21:22:34 05/03/05
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On May 03, 2005 at 21:16:18, Steven Edwards wrote: >On May 03, 2005 at 15:59:00, Matthew Hull wrote: >>On May 03, 2005 at 12:39:12, Steven Edwards wrote: > >>>Symbolic's toolkit is not strong enough on my available hardware to have much >>>chance to place in the upper half of the field, although it would be interesting >>>to see some of the games. >> >>I'd be willing to bet it would be competitive on the latest Mac hardware. Their >>might even be volunteers willing to offer the use of their 64-bit hardware if >>you decided to enter the competition. >> >>It might be worth looking into. Someone here might be willing to build the >>toolkit on 64-bit Mac and run some benchmarks, or even do some runs on ICC. > >Eventually I'll get a 64 bit machine and handle this myself as it would likely >take many iterations for optimal adjustments in the program. It's possible that >this will happen in time for CCT8. (Has it been scheduled yet?) Are you kidding? They barely got 2005 scheduled with only 4 months notice. They have no clue about 2006, much less 2008. It's a travesty, IMHO. Big hardware projects need much more notice than 4 months to get equipment and testing ready. Not only do they need time for these things, but they really need hard dates and times, preferably at least six months in advance, for scheduling. Computer time on big hardware is not cheap, nor is it easy to get the hardware on the dates and times it will be needed. Surely ICGA are aware of this. But maybe they don't care. You would think they are deliberately favoring the microcomputer software vendors by making the event with such short notice, so that it's less likely a competitive big-hardware project will interfere with the desired marketing results. I don't know that this is a factor, but it looks suspicious. >Also, there is >plenty of other work to be done on the program that's more important than 64 bit >optimization.
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