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Subject: Re: Opteron vs. XP

Author: Jay Urbanski

Date: 08:16:51 06/29/03

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On June 29, 2003 at 10:45:25, Sune Fischer wrote:

>Right, but why is this interesting?
>Honestly, to compile Crafty with a 32-bit compiler for a 64 bit chip smells like
>incompetence to me.
>
>Finally the 32-bit hell is over, for good!! :)

>-S.

It's interesting because the vast majority of chess engines are 32-bit binaries
without any source code provided.  Granted if you're running Crafty you'd be
silly to compile it as 32-bit; but most other engines don't provide you that
option.

It will be several years before we see commercial 64-bit engines for Opteron.
We may never see them for Itanium.



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