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Subject: Re: Opteron vs. XP

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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