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Subject: Re: Multiple processors on one chip...

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 18:43:04 03/04/00

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On March 04, 2000 at 20:27:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On March 04, 2000 at 15:48:16, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>On March 04, 2000 at 09:34:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>>So it makes me wonder... if you made the Pentium's L2 cache as fast as the
>>>>PII's, would it achieve parity again? Seems likely to me.
>>>It would help...  but without register renaming, it becomes difficult to feed
>>>two pipes for long sequences of instructions.  I think the p6 would still keep
>>>a significant edge, but better cache would narrow the gap...
>>
>>Is there a section of Crafty that will run in 16k?
>>
>>You could do some comparisons with that.
>>
>>-Tom
>
>
>not that I can think of.  IE even the MakeMove() loop in perft requires a good
>bit of data...

In that case, I don't think it's possible to use Crafty to compare the processor
cores. The TSCP benchmarks give much more accurate data in that regard.

-Tom



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