Author: Greg Lindahl
Date: 21:32:58 12/20/99
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On December 20, 1999 at 21:37:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Crafty's eval is 50% of the total time. Nobody is over 90% of total time in >eval. You are correct about Crafty. You are wrong about "nobody". > The problem that >you may be overlooking is this: Suppose a very fast program (fritz) searches >300K nodes per second with almost no eval. Your hardware won't help much. >Suppose another program searches at 30K with 90% of the time spent in eval. >You speed that program up to almost 300K. That isn't enough to make a huge >difference, particularly when someone can compile on other platforms (like >the 21264) and get a big boost there as well... First off, I almost exclusively use the 21264 already, which you remember because you've been carefully reading what I write. Second off, you seem to be assuming that searching N nodes is the same as searching N nodes. But you know that's wrong -- quality makes a difference. -- g
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