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Subject: Re: What is the speed difference that programs earn from 64 bit systems

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 20:27:40 05/01/05

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On May 01, 2005 at 21:01:17, Daniel Pineo wrote:

>On April 30, 2005 at 20:22:22, Christos Gitsis wrote:
>
>>On April 29, 2005 at 16:26:28, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I read that Shredder9 for 64 bit is released and my question is what is the
>>>speed difference that program earn from compiling for 64 bits when you need also
>>>64 bit window to run it.
>>>
>>>Can somebody tell me about the speed gain in nodes per second of all the free
>>>source code programs including programs that do not use bitboard like tscp or
>>>fruit and bitboard programs like Crafty.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>I have tested two different versions of Crafty-19.19 using my Athlon 64 3400+:
>>
>>- Under 32-bit Windows XP the fastest version I could find in the Internet
>>(among about 8 different executables) runs at an average of about 1.5 million
>>NPS and has reached a maximum of 1.7 MNPS.
>>
>>- Under 64-bit Gentoo Linux it runs at an average of 2.2 million NPS and has
>>reached a maximum of 2.48 MNPS.
>>
>>The increase in speed is 40~50%.
>>
>>I hope this helps
>
>
>Don't you think switching from windows to linux might have something to do with
>that 40~50% increase?

Last time I asked AMD people to check, 64-bit Visual C generated better code
than 64-bit GCC 4.0.

So on 64-bit Windows increase would be even larger.

Thanks,
Eugene



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