Crafty benchmark question

[Spock]

I post this here because it is more likely to get Bob's attention, or perhaps another Crafty expert.

Double-clicking on the Crafty exe, and then typing "bench" runs a benchmark but only for quite a short period of time. Is there an extra parameter that will make it run longer ? And a parameter to tell it how much hash to use during the bench ? Is the latter just in the crafty.rc file ?

thanks

[bob]

I post this here because it is more likely to get Bob's attention, or perhaps another Crafty expert.

Double-clicking on the Crafty exe, and then typing "bench" runs a benchmark but only for quite a short period of time. Is there an extra parameter that will make it run longer ? And a parameter to tell it how much hash to use during the bench ? Is the latter just in the crafty.rc file ?

thanks

We will probably revise this before long since hardware has continued to get faster. To answer your questions, in order:

(1) no, it runs for a specific search depth in each position so that the benchmark is comparable across platforms;

(2) you should run with default hash, otherwise you again change a variable that makes it impossible to compare with other benchmark results.