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Subject: Re: Some advice needed

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 19:08:49 04/03/00

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On April 03, 2000 at 20:10:00, Christophe Theron wrote:

>I would suggest to go for the Athlon. The PIII really sucks, for my program at
>least. I don't know why, but the PIII-450 is slower than the K6-2 400 for Chess
>Tiger (close to 10% slower!).

The K6-2 has much shorter pipelines than the PIII. That makes it significantly
faster, but also keeps the clock speeds relatively low.

The reason the Athlon may be better than the PIII for computer chess is the huge
L1 caches. I suspect the integer core of the Athlon is pretty much equivalent to
the PIII's.

-Tom



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