Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 08:27:56 06/29/03
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On June 29, 2003 at 11:16:51, Jay Urbanski wrote: >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. Depends on what you mean by 64-bit, I don't expect the non-bitboarders to switch, but I'd certainly expect them to make use of it other ways, like simply recompiling to 64-bit and coding for the extra registers. This would not take years, it will happen as soon as a significant portion of their customers own them. You know, if there ever was a programmer who cared about the speed of his code, then that would be a chess programmer. :) -S.
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