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Don Dailey



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PostPost subject: Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls    Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:34 pm Reply to topic Reply with quote
SzG wrote:
Is this thread about Komodo being better than Houdini if enough cores and enough time are used on a hardware no mortals have?

It seems the days bestowed on this debate could have been better used to develop Komodo so that it won't require stellar means to beat Houdini. Or is that hopeless?


The test is not taking any of my time, but that's my decision. I spend more time making these posts than running the test.

The question of how a program scales is not just a theoretical issue, it's right to the point. It's the entire reason computer chess enthusiasts buy faster computers, overclock the ones they have and bring the fastest possible hardware to tournaments.

In fact a program that scales better than another one IS the better program from the point of view of computer science. The reason why is that the level and hardware you might choose to test is totally arbitrary - so we have to focus on the theoretical properties to determine which is the superior algorithm. How well a program is optimized for example is a constant (which for practical reasons might make a program stronger at some fixed level and hardware) but scalability is a quality that "keeps on giving" - if you run it in analysis mode or on a future faster computer you have a different program, not just the same program running faster.

A good example to hep you understand is bubble sort vs quicksort. Everyone knows that quicksort is "superior" but if you are sorting a few items bubble sort or insertion sort might be faster. But we don't measure the superiority that way unless there is some engineering decision that dictates using bubble sort for some very specific and highly constrained problem such as that you will never be sorting more than 5 items for some specific use. Usually it turns out that programmers get themselves into trouble when they make decisions like that such as using bubblesort or insertion sort because they don't think there will ever be more than a few items.
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Number 1 engine on long time controls Teodoriu Catalin Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:17 pm
      Re: NUMBER 1 ENGINE ON LONG TIME CONTROLS Uri Blass Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:52 pm
            Re: NUMBER 1 ENGINE ON LONG TIME CONTROLS Teodoriu Catalin Sat Feb 25, 2012 8:02 am
      Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:01 pm
            Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Lonnie Cook Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:21 pm
                  Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:16 pm
                        Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Robert Houdart Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:40 pm
                              Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:51 pm
                                    Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Robert Houdart Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:13 am
                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Ignacio Garcia Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:29 am
                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:30 am
                                                Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Tom Giampietro Sat Feb 25, 2012 1:05 am
                                                      Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Sat Feb 25, 2012 1:40 am
                                                            Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Robert Houdart Sat Feb 25, 2012 1:52 am
                                                                  Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Peter Skinner Sat Feb 25, 2012 5:54 am
                                                            Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Carl Bicknell Sat Feb 25, 2012 8:57 am
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                                                                        Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Carl Bicknell Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:00 am
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                                                      Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls George Speight Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:37 am
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                                                            Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Ben-Hur Carlos Langoni Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:17 pm
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                                                      Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:57 pm
                                                            Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Uri Blass Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:33 pm
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                                                                  Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:51 pm
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                                                                              Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:35 pm
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                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:50 pm
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                                                                                    Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Milos Stanisavljevic Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:04 pm
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Milos Stanisavljevic Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:22 pm
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                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:48 pm
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                                                                                    Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Larry Kaufman Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:11 pm
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Milos Stanisavljevic Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:19 pm
                                                                                    Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:35 pm
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Ignacio Garcia Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:58 pm
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:38 pm
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Ignacio Garcia Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:40 pm
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls. Jesús Muñoz Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:06 pm
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:06 pm
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                                                                                    Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls. Jesús Muñoz Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:50 pm
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls. Don Dailey Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:30 am
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls. Jesús Muñoz Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:31 am
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls. Don Dailey Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:57 am
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls. Don Dailey Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:06 pm
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                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls. Terry McCracken Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:49 pm
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                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls. Terry McCracken Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:52 am
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls. Uri Blass Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:05 pm
                        Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Bram Mourik Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:01 pm
                              Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:30 pm
                                    Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Dr.Wael Deeb Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:37 pm
                                    Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Bram Mourik Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:58 pm
                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:25 pm
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                              Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Uri Blass Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:30 pm
                              Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:34 pm
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                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:48 pm
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                                                Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Vincent Diepeveen Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:20 pm
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                                                                        Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Don Dailey Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:49 pm
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                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Larry Kaufman Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:59 pm
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Dr.Wael Deeb Fri Mar 02, 2012 7:10 pm
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Carl Bicknell Sat Mar 03, 2012 3:49 pm
                                                                                          Re: Number 1 engine on long time controls Dr.Wael Deeb Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:36 am
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