Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 14:54:25 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. This is bloody nonsense. World champs november 2003 most of the participants will be running 64 bits opterons/AMD64s there i bet and within a few months those versions will hit the market too. I show up however at 500Mhz cpu's. But i'll take 500 with me ;)
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