A decade ago only a few programmers (in computer go) even knew what scalability was. Most of the programmers were writing patterns and not focused on scalability and this hurt them.
I believe it's starting to become more appreciated and the skill will improve more rapidly. Of course there is some questions about how long Moore's law will hold. - Don On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 10:25 +0200, Petri Pitkanen wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
