[quackle] Re: quackle wish list and sim speed

[GIJoel999]

In a message dated 3/29/2006 5:18:11 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, some anonymous Floridian in quackle@yahoogroups.com writes: -Also the option to imput a mid-game position just by typing it in That one's an absolute must.  It's a pain having to create racks first to input one move at a time to the board.   And now for some really exciting news.  I have installed Quackle 0.91 on three different Windoze XP Home Edition machines now, and finally, I found one that likes it.  I stuck it on our nearly brand new HP laptop and the sim started to fly like a motherfucker, excuse my French.  Two and three choice 2-ply sims on early open boards got 10K iterations done in about 7 minutes!  Below is a chart comparing the attributes of our three computers and the speed with which Quackle simmed the identical position with the identical choices on each.  My apologies if this chart doesn't format as neat as it looks on my machine. Read it in Courier New 8 pt font and it should look right.   So I can use my laptop for annotating games now.  And if everyone else goes out and buys the same machine,  ;-)  you geniuses that put Quackle together can now apply yourselves to more important problems like hunger, world peace, global warming, and who shot J.R. Ewing.  Thanks again.   Joel Sherman                 Main desktop                        Backup desktop                    Laptop Specs         Dell Dimension 8400                 Dell Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1.8GHz   HP Pavilion zv6270               Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz         1.79 GHz, 256 MB RAM Same Win     AMD Athlon 64 CPU 3500+               2.99 GHz, 1 GB RAM  Win V 5.1       version and build as Dimension    2.19 GHz, 1 GB RAM               Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158:Service Pack 2                    Physical Address Extension                                                                                     (no idea what that means)                                                                                     Win V 5.1, build:                                                                   2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519:Service Pack 2   Sim details   5 nonbingo choices midgame, several bingo lines, no nonbingo hotspots iterations/min 2 plies       120                                 87                                190 4 plies        52                                 33                                 90 many plies     18 not worth the wait              13 fuhgeddaboutit                  33 acceptable if I                                                                                          really need this info   Side effects  Sim slows down other                Slows other programs to               programs (AOL, AOL's                crawl (Wintour Poker, AOL, etc.)               internal IE, JumbleTime               keyboard response) SPONSORED LINKS Collectible board game Monopoly board game Family board game Parker brother board game Milton bradley board games Chess board game YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "quackle" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.