shrapnel wrote:In my opinion, Asmfish is over-rated.Dann Corbit wrote:Asmfish has special NUMA code and it scales pretty well to fairly high counts
If with a new cooler system you passed from 4.5 Ghz to 4.6 Ghz, you will probably take it happily, even if you will barely notice any improvement in a few hundred games.shrapnel wrote: I don't know the Math, but I've observed that a heavily-overclocked, well-cooled 4-Core ( or 6 or 8) is more than capable of repeatedly holding even the fastest dual-xeons to draws.
Asmfish is like this, having another little long term advantage.
If Stockfish is so good is precisely due to this, as you sure know, the incessant accumulation of little barely noticeable advantages.