Hello,
I do not understand it. Maybe someone does? I've made some tests on 2 core processors, and I have strange results. Some of 2 core processors got results exactly 2x times worse than they should. Why? I have no idea. But 2.8 Ghz 2 core works exactly like my 1.4 laptop. Also version of g++ does matter.
Here, from my experience, the following can matter a lot: - version of g++ (g++ 4.1 gave me +50% against g++ 4.0 on an opteron!) - version of the libc: even compiled with a modern compiler, a program running on a machine with an old version of the libc can be very significantly slower (-30% observed!). - exact version of the processor: today the frequency means nothing, nor the name of the processor. You have to check the exact numbers. And I also observed that even the small numbers as the "stepping number", matters. MoGo runs faster on my P4 3.4 Ghz than on a 3 years newer P4 3.8 Ghz, which has also more cache. I ran test on other P4, and the slower had a different stepping, that's all (all are dell computers using same hardware). - Measure of time: if you take the CPU time, on multiprocessor machine, while using multithreading, sometimes the reported time is not what you expect (generaly reported for all the threads), so when you calculate the speed of playouts, you can have a 2x/4x factor. Hope that can help, Sylvain _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
