[net.ai] What does 18 times faster than REAL TIME mean.

gml@ssc-vax.UUCP (Gregory M Lobdell) (10/17/85)

> But what does it mean to be "half as fast as real time"?  Better yet
> what does it mean to be "18 times faster thatn real time"?  Does your
> answer come out before you type it in?

"Half as fast and 18 times faster than real time" means that the
expert system chews on data for a fixed amount of time.  When it has
done all it wants with that chunk of data, it gets another chunk of
data.  On the vax, it took twice the time represented by one data
chunk to process that data.  The LispM could process 18 data chunks
in the time represented by one data chunk.

The amount of data in each chunk was representative of the amount of
data that would be handled had it been controlling a real process.

Gregg Lobdell