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Subject: Re: Opteron vs. XP

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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