Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 09:29:36 03/28/99
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On March 27, 1999 at 19:01:40, Adnan wrote: >On March 27, 1999 at 12:42:47, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>The results depend on which "equal hardware" you are using. If you get two >>quad-Xeon computers (like Bob's), and match Crafty (using its SMP code) against >>the same programs you will get better results for crafty, as the other programs >>will only be wasting three of the four processors (and crafty will be using the >>four). > >It is immaterial whether or not Crafty would do better on four processors >because other programs won't even work on four processors. For me it is not immaterial. >The question is >how Crafty does under windows compared to Fritz, Junior and Hiarcs. It might be the question for you. For me it is not, as I do not use Windows. >The simple >asnswer is that Crafty is weaker, much weaker. > Under those conditions, your answer is correct. >By the way, 99% people who play chess do not have a 4 processor computers >anyway. I did not realize that until recently.
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