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Subject: Re: The slow pokes ranked 1 and 2 after 5 rounds.

Author: Havergal Brian

Date: 17:34:08 06/17/99

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>Posted by Mark Young on June 17, 1999 at 19:08:59:


>As impressive as 1,000,000+ nodes a second sounds for the multi-CPU programs.
>The two programs on the slowest machines are winning the tournament so far. How
>big a surprise is it that Hiarcs and Shredder are winning the tournament after 5
>rounds on just one PIII chip. (If you can call one PIII chip slow)




Believe it or not, that extra computing power really doesn't give the other
programs that much of a boost at all.  Take crafty as an example, sure it has a
higher rating than the old crafty running on the PPro 200, but not by that much.
 Most of those programs would do just as well on a P3 as on the multiprocessor
machines they are currently using.  Oh, and please do remember the "luck"
factor...you need look no further than Mchess.  It is much better than that.



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