Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:48:26 07/08/99
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On July 08, 1999 at 07:41:27, David Blackman wrote: >On July 07, 1999 at 13:01:42, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >> >>On July 07, 1999 at 08:02:14, Rajen Gupta wrote: >> >>>when microsoft the great releases a 64 bit version of win9x/NT, would that be >>>the time when the alpha processor comes into its own? >> >>I don't see why, but, warning, I am not an expert on the Alpha. >> >>The compiler you get from Microsoft, which I am told has a Digital back end, >>generates 32-bit ints by default. But the Alpha seems to do fine on 32-bit >>ints. And you can make a 64-bit int easily enough. >> >>So, I don't see what changing the OS and compiler to use 64-bit ints by default >>will accomplish, in a chess programming sense. >> >>bruce > >Not really in a chess sprogramming sense, but a 64 bit address space would be >nice for a lot of applications. I work at a small-to-medium size business and >some of our stuff thrashes our 384MB server. An upgrade to almost 1GB is planned >for soon. In a few years i expect us to need more than 4GB. Alpha/Linux would be >a serious option if we wanted this right now. I suppose places with more Windows >NT expertise would prefer NT, if and when it goes 64 bit. > >For chess, is suppose there might be some advantage in really huge transposition >tables, or having the 5 piece EGTBs in ram instead of disc :-) Xeon processors already support a 36 gigabyte address space for memory. That will be impossible to 'fill' for several years... as the best machines have 16 DIMM slots in them. and we don't have 1 gig DIMMS yet...
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