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Re: Speedometer Results Overrated?



In article <4e1aoj$ji8@news.voicenet.com>,
   chessman@voicenet.com (ChessMan) wrote:
>Although Speedometer makes it look like that Executor is running at say -- 25 
>mhz 68040 speed on a 90 mhz pentium  - other CPU intensive programs may not 
>fare as well.  I got MACCHESS 2.0 to run (quite well) on Executor and for the 
>same settings and position, it took MACCHESS almost 3x as long on Executor to 
>arrive at the same result - 124 seconds to 43 seconds for my Daystar 
>accelerated 68040 40 mhz IIvx. Indicating a comparable speed of 14-15 mhz 
>68040.  Still impressive for an emulation program, but not quite as 
impressive 
>as some of the Speedometer results.  
>
>Mike B.

For those would like to perform the same test, the settings were:
New game Position
Black & White mode
Level - 8 ply
Opening book off
Make the move h2h4 and time how long the response is:

The program will analyse 550,000 chess positions and then makes it move .  My 
times for this are stated above. I obtained my best times in 'REAL DOS' mode.

Mike B.


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