Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:05:47 02/05/00
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On February 05, 2000 at 06:21:59, CLiebert wrote:
>>
>>>First of all let me say that my testing method is not for those of us who have
>>>several fast computers for their games. I have one 200MMX only.
>>>
>>>Both programs are put in equally bad, but constant, conditions.
>
>This isn´t true. For example playing hiarcs against fritz with 16mb ram/ht
>is not the same. fritz suffers much more using small tables than hiarcs. The
>same case in a smaller way with tiger and the faster junior which needs more Ht
>s. I assume that tiger is a litte bit in favour playing under these conditions
>
>Christian
Fair testing is about giving each program the same amount of RESOURCE.
That means same CPU, and same amount of RAM, amongst other things.
If a program performs less well than its opponent with the same amount of RAM,
that's a design flaw. Why would you reward this program by giving it more hash
tables?
So Didzis is right: the programs are in equally bad conditions.
Anyway, double the amount of hash tables for both programs, and all you'll see
is that their relative playing strength remains constant. So in the end it does
not matter.
Christophe
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