Author: James Swafford
Date: 05:56:22 05/04/05
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On May 04, 2005 at 00:22:34, Matthew Hull wrote: >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. > I think you were thinking Steven was asking about the next WCCC, but he was asking about CCT. I guess your point still stands, though... it was scheduled with even less notice. > > >>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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