Zac Hatfield-Dodds comments on How much chess engine progress is about adapting to bigger computers?

Zac Hatfield-Dodds 9 Jul 2021 5:37 UTC
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A Time-Leap Challenge for SAT Solving seems related:

We compare the impact of hardware advancement and algorithm advancement for SAT-solving over the last two decades. In particular, we compare 20-year-old SAT-solvers on new computer hardware with modern SAT-solvers on 20-year-old hardware. Our findings show that the progress on the algorithmic side has at least as much impact as the progress on the hardware side.