Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 15:19:43 01/22/06
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On January 22, 2006 at 17:46:33, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi Joseph, > >in fact there is a little difference between how chessbase native engines are >handled and uci-engines are handled. But this is not the fault of chessbase, >it's simply windows. You know, usually Windows is set to prefer foreground >application. Natives are part of the GUI, so in fact they are the foreground >application. UCI-engines instead are loaded as a seperated .exe and became >background applications. Therefor when running with ponder=on on a single CPU >system the native will get more CPU time (I believe a lot people have reported >that already). But this mean also that if a third process is using resources on the system is takes away more CPU time from the UCI engine than from the Chessbase native engine, doesn't it? regards Andy
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