2007/1/11, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
50 X speedup sound rather impressive but it's not that much. It's probably made go programs about 2 or 3 stones stronger over the few years that it took to get hardward 50X faster about what you would expect.
But it is hardly that much. Current programs are hardly 2-3 stones stronger ythat those in erly nineties. And if you comapare back them I used Goliath on my 286 20 MHz computer and today I use GnuGo on my
2GHz Athlon. So in bit over decade decade computers got about 100
times faster maybe 2-3 times more effetc/cycle so almost 300 times faster. And gain in strength is about 2-3 stones. So 50 times faster is lot faster. It will take more than few years to come. It may not help that much. Obviously any speed gain will help MC type program but I doubt not too much. MC probably will not dominate computer go in next decade. I am pretty sure we need some new ideas still to make progress. And By Go I mean a game that is played on 19x19 board. I find playing on 9x9 boring and not really a same game. Petri Pitkänen -- Petri Pitkänen e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +358 50 486 0292 _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
