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Subject: Re: Performance under Win98 and WinNT

Author: James Robertson

Date: 18:24:23 03/04/99

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On March 04, 1999 at 17:12:46, Peter Kasinski wrote:

>I tried runnig Pedestrian under Win98 and was shocked by how much slower it was
>than under NT. Details:
>
>a)  same C++ compiler from Visual Studio 6
>b)  same hardware (PII 450)
>c)  identical node counts and depths
>d)  typical timing from one of the positions:
>
>Win 98          163.0 sec
>Win NT 4.01      73.9 sec
>
>Any idea why such a huge difference?
>I tried tweaking some optimization options but it didn't help.
>
>(win386.swp is not the answer, by the way)
>
>thanks,
>PK.

NT is faster (I get about 10-20% speed increase), but 120% looks rather
suspicious.

James



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