Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:45:05 03/27/99
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On March 27, 1999 at 03:55:25, blass uri wrote: >It is not fair because part of the effort in doing the program crafty is by >doing it a parallel machine. >I believe that Bob could do in the same time a better program if he did not >waste time for doing a SMP program. If someone wants to compare Crafty and Fritz I think it would be fair to compare them on uniform high-end (single-processor) hardware, since they are both designed to work on that hardware. If one of them would only run on a 286, I don't think it would be fair to make them both run on a 286. But multiprocessor machines are still a super- high-end thing so it's probably not fair to say: Here is the machine, it has 4 processors, feel free to use them in this match. Oh, what did you say Fritz, you can't use 4 processors, you can only use one? Well, that's too bad for you. You might as well put them both on an Alpha and expect Fritz to use an emulator. In a few years, maybe, because everyone will have a multiprocessor machine, but of course everyone will be multiprocessor then. Bob's put time in being SMP, sure, but I think he supports single-processor machines and runs well on them. bruce
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