Author: James T. Walker
Date: 04:07:53 01/08/99
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On January 07, 1999 at 17:50:42, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >On January 07, 1999 at 17:36:41, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>On January 07, 1999 at 16:19:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>I'm not sure what to say. Not being an AMD user, nor knowing much about >>>what the K6 does internally, it looks like the PII is simply "winning the >>>race" by a significant margin there. In years past, we have seen the K6 >>>and pentium Pro run clock for clock with crafty. But maybe it is taking a >>>beating because of the BSF stuff or something in the assembly language that >>>is not running well on the K6, but being eaten alive on the PII... >>> >>>just a SWAG of course... >> >>Does yours K6-2 has L2 cache? An > >Sorry, connection today is awful. Once again: > >Does yours K6-2 has L2 cache? And if so, does *all* the memory cached? >If not, it can happen that other chess programs are more L1 cache >friendly than Crafty; Crafty's engine is large enough and don't fit >into L1 cache. > >Eugene Hello, Yes, I have 512K of L-2 cache and I think all of the memory is cached. As I said most of my other programs run faster on the K6-2 with the exception of Chessmaster which runs about 5% slower. I wonder if anyone else has this problem ? Jim Walker
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