Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 09:25:41 09/19/03
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On September 19, 2003 at 11:48:13, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >On September 19, 2003 at 08:39:24, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>On September 19, 2003 at 08:25:00, Steven Edwards wrote: >> >>>The leader position changes from time to time. Back in late 1999, the Apple >>>PowerMac G4 was the only consumer machine to be on the US State Department >>>export blacklist because the box could do better than 1 GFlop/sec sustained. >>>Then there were the years where Motorola fell behind by quite a bit. Now it >>>looks like things are even again, but now with IBM putting its resources into >>>PPC fab tech, I think that the PPC970 and its relatives will once again assume >>>the front position. >> >>Personally I am not so optimistic. It seems to me that the 970 is rather >>unimpressive for integer operations, and I'm afraid non-bitboard chess >>engines (like mine) will perform very badly. >> >>I have even seen several test results which indicate that the G5 can >>even be _slower_ than a G4 in certain cases. In particular, a discussion >>on the Macintosh Common Lisp mailing list the last few days has made me >>rather worried. It started with this e-mail: >> >>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.mcl.general/1404 >> >>I really hope I will be proven wrong, but so far I think the G5 looks >>very bad. >> >>Tord > >I can not share your scepticism. I now from personal sources that my engine has >very high NPS on a G5 1.6 Ghz machine. Thanks! This is good news! And this is a non-bitboard program? Tord
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