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Subject: Re: Pentium 4

Author: David Blackman

Date: 21:36:42 06/28/00

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On June 28, 2000 at 20:31:30, Michael Neish wrote:

>
>Sorry if this is old news on this board, but I just read that the Pentium 4 is
>now out, clocking at 1.5 GHz.
>
>Any comments?
>
>Cheers,

Rumours suggest a 20 clock cycle penalty for incorrectly predicted conditional
branches. Ouch. My chess program has lots of branches that are very difficult to
predict. I suspect this is true of many other chess programs too.

Don't be too surprised if some chess programs run faster on Pentium 3 or Athlon
at 1 GHz than they do on Pentium 4 at 1.5 GHz.

Not sure it is actually out now either. They just officially announced it now.
Last i heard, it will be available September or October.



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