Author: Ray Banks
Date: 03:20:36 10/15/05
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On October 15, 2005 at 05:55:04, Lin Harper wrote: > Hi Wilhelm, > I notice you have 'ponder ON'. Without meaning to pee on your picnic basket, > tourneys held before on the one comp were consistently won by CM, and it was > discovered then that the reason for CM's apparent good performance is that > some programs hog the CPU more than others. CM is a CPU hog, and hinders the >others' performance. > I think you'll find that if you repeat this tourney with ponder OFF, you will > get markedly different results. > all the best > Lin Don't agree at all. I've run thousands of CM9000 and CM10th matches on a dual CPU machine with ponder on, and each engine always gets exactly 50% i.e. one CPU each. He has a dual core machine so I expect it will be the same for him. I see no problems with his methodology
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