Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:55:35 09/27/99
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On September 27, 1999 at 11:52:59, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >It seems that crafty's rating on ICC is 400 points too high and I don't mean >inflated. The reason I think this is I know I learn more from the games I lose >than I do from the games I win. It seems to me that for development purposes, >slower hardware would expose improvable inefficiencies in the program. With the >current hardware (4x400 Xeon), Crafty looks like a genius in every game due to >the speed of the hardware. If each of the CPU's were running at say 100mhz, then >improvements to the program could occur at more rapid pace, since problems with >the eval or whatever would be more noticeable (more losses=more opportunity to >improve). Not that Bob has done "too badly", but maybe he can do better? Just a >thought. This is a problem on _any_ hardware. IE evaluation problems are definitely in every program I watch on ICC. And hardware makes up for a lot of them. Even on slower hardware the speed of the search covers a lot of mistakes made... But then again, tuning while running on slower hardware can make you do odd things on faster hardware... I think it is better to "dance with the one what brung ya" and tune on the hardware you plan on using in serious events...
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