Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 17:55:40 06/30/03
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On June 29, 2003 at 18:08:31, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On June 29, 2003 at 11:27:56, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>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 is nonsense of course. First of all intel will be releasing x86-64 cpu's >themselves. So what runs at opteron, will run in future at intel 64 bits cpu's Careful, your tin foil hat is coming loose. -Tom
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