Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:11:37 11/01/99
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On November 01, 1999 at 21:21:06, James B. Shearer wrote:
>On November 01, 1999 at 18:20:21, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On November 01, 1999 at 16:10:04, James B. Shearer wrote:
>>
>>>On November 01, 1999 at 01:44:56, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 31, 1999 at 19:20:00, James B. Shearer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On October 31, 1999 at 18:10:33, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>>
> <snip>
>
>>I used to like what Bob is doing, but I realize there are less and less reasons
>>to appreciate him anymore.
>
> Hyatt is what he is. I don't think he's changed much.
>
>>>>> As for whether Crafty is ahead or behind, Crafty can use multiple
>>>>>processors and some other programs cannot which I expect you are ignoring.
>>>>
>>>>Of course I know that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>It is unreasonable to say Crafty is behind based on ignoring areas in which
>>>>>Crafty is ahead.
>>>>
>>>>Crafty has been initially developped as a single processor PC program IIRC. As
>>>>such, his algorithms are definitely behind most of the commercial programs.
>>>>
>>>>Crafty indeed needs several processors to get the strength of a good commercial
>>>>program running on a single processor.
>>>>
>>>>So if the following is more to your taste: "Crafty needs a big hardware
>>>>advantage to play equal with the good commercial programs".
>>>
>>> What advantage? We will give both programs multiprocessors. If other
>>>programs are too backward to use the extra processors that's not Hyatt's fault.
>>
>>
>>That's interesting. So you consider most of the top programs to be backward?
>
> In that respect yes. If you are to be believed, Crafty is backward in
>uniprocessor performance. Both count. If Crafty is so lousy why was Ban
>wasting time playing it manually on ICC?
> James B. Shearer
Because there was no serious opposition as Tiger was not there? No, it's a joke!
:)
It's really a joke, don't shoot at me! :)
I don't know why he was doing this exactly. Maybe he wanted to understand
something Crafty is good at?
Christophe
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