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Subject: Re: TSCP benchmark test

Author: James Swafford

Date: 18:41:37 07/19/99

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On July 19, 1999 at 20:22:40, Will Singleton wrote:

K6-2 400 mhz, MSVC++ 4.0 Standard (no optimizing) :

1 = 21000
2 = 93000
3 = 33200
4 = 31326
5 = 31326
6 = 29080
7 = 28745

If I have time later, I'll compile w/ Cygnus.

--
James




>
>In the thread "improving speed," there was some discussion about the nps of
>TSCP, what it is and should be, compiler options etc.  The first poster said he
>was getting 15k nps for TSCP, and Bob and Vincent said it should be 10x that
>speed for his machine.  Subsequent posters got 30k nps on slower machines.
>
>I'd be interested to do a more precise test using TSCP, as a means to benchmark
>various platforms, as well as to find differences in compiler performance on
>identical platforms.  This would be easy to do, since TSCP is easily modifiable,
>easy to run, and easy to get.
>
>For those of you willing to participate, here's the method I followed to produce
>the output shown below:
>
>Download TSCP v1.3.
>Modify the procedure Think() in search.c to search 6 ply.
>Also modify the printf call to show nps.
>  (I calculated nps by using nodes*60/ticks, where ticks==60th sec)
>Compile using optimize on.
>Run TSCP, and type ON.
>
>tscp> on
>ply      nodes    n/s  score  pv
>  1         21   1260     48  d2d4
>  2         93   5580      0  d2d4 d7d5
>  3        996  29880     35  d2d4 d7d5 b1c3
>  4       5952  39680      5  e2e4 d7d5 f1b5 c8d7 b5d3
>  5      32924  43898     35  e2e4 b8c6 b1c3 e7e5 g1f3
>  6     203273  40519     13  e2e4 b8c6 d2d4 d7d5 e4d5 d8d5
>tscp>
>
>Platform -- Mac G3/300 (powerbook)
>Compiler -- CodeWarrior 3.1, full opt
>
>I will gather the results (assuming I get any volunteers) and post them here.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Will
>
>------
>
>results from previous thread (not a controlled experiment, obviously)
>K6-3/400  15k nps
>K6-2/300  30k nps
>P/233     30k nps



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