Author: Chris Carson
Date: 10:34:41 06/22/99
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On June 22, 1999 at 10:58:42, paul bedrey wrote: >Hi Chris, thanks for your comments. I was thinking of the just completed Micro >Championship. Some of the Hares were running on souped up hardware yet the >tortoises more than held there own. It would be interesting to see what would >have happened if it was reversed and the Tortoises had the superior hardware. >Someone had said in a previous post that speed is only good if your pointed in >the right direction. I see two things discussed here. S/W speed (evaluation) in Nodes Per Second (NPS) and HW speed (faster HW). Given the same HW (like SSDF) you can compare (not perfect, but best I know of) SW strength. A fast Searcher will get rating Xs and a Slow Searcher will get Ys ratings. In my opinion, High NPS or Low NPS is irrelevant (although mine is a fast searcher, high NPS), the bottom line is how strong the program is. Just my opinion. If you put the Xs or the Ys program on a faster machine and play against the other program on a slower machine, then either X or Y will see a ratings increase due to the faster hardware. I am talking single processor now. If a program is multi-processing, then adding more processors may add significant strength. I am not an expert, this is just my opinion. What has been your observation? Best Regards, Chris Carson
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