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Subject: Re: Uneven Computer Hardware Matches

Author: Lanny DiBartolomeo

Date: 08:39:08 11/11/99

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On November 11, 1999 at 09:44:23, Randy Schmidt wrote:

>I have to wonder how useful it is to compare Fritz6 on a Pentium 3-700
>vs. Chess Genius 2.0 on a Pentium 166!
>I suppose that one can calculate that the score difference should be
>12-3 and then compare the actual result, but isn't that like taking
>a high school track star and having him run the 100-meter vs. Carl Lewis
>but giving Carl Lewis a 15 meter head start?
>
>I would prefer to see results of various programs on equal hardware.
>Isn't that more to the point?

I see what your saying,But if you now see how close the highschool track star
came to him and you have carl do the same thing to other high school trac stars
you can get a pretty good feel as to the relative speed of the highschool track
stars and carl Lewis and now if you take other champion runners and see how they
do with the other high school track stars and compare you get even a better feel
for how carl would do against the other champion runners and also how the other
highschool track runners against each other, But of course nothing beats equal
"running" conditions :)



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