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Subject: Re: Not A Blast Re: Where are 64 bits machine?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:09:52 03/18/03

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On March 18, 2003 at 17:47:49, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On March 18, 2003 at 16:57:17, Brian Richardson wrote:
>
>>I have a dual Itanium2 1GHz system.  Perhaps you forgot my earlier post.
>>With the optimizing compilers (tried both Intel and Microsoft), it runs
>>Tinker at about 2GHz Pentium speed (x86 binary code at only 30%).
>>
>>Has anyone been able to reproduce your (Eugene's?) results showing MUCH faster
>>Itanium2 performance?
>
>*sigh* Like I've always said, Crafty is not your typical chess program.
>
>-Tom


There we agree.  Itanium is all about moving data around in large quantities.
32 bit programs won't necessarily benefit at all, and may well be a lot slower
in fact...

However, this is also true of many other machines.  Many folks drop their
favorite
program on a Cray expecting blinding performance and don't get it, because they
can't
use the vector hardware.



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