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Subject: Re: About the Core Solo/Duo

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 00:17:05 03/01/06

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On February 28, 2006 at 12:18:57, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On February 28, 2006 at 12:11:39, Thomas Cutter wrote:
>
>>On February 28, 2006 at 06:52:35, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>
>>>For a 64-bit program, the Core Duo would probably perform worse.
>>
>>AFAIK Core Duo is 32bit only. I.e. no 64bit OS or program will run.
>
>OK, I should have been more precise.  With "64-bit program" I meant a
>chess program which is written to utilize 64-bit integers extensively.
>My program is not.  If you have a 64-bit CPU you can compile a 64-bit
>executable of my program, but it isn't likely to run noticably faster
>than a 32-bit executable on the same CPU.
>
>Tord

There are eve Mac Minis now with Core Solo/Duo for 600/800$.
I hope my univeristy will buy some. :)

regards
Andy



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