Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 04:53:30 04/04/00
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On April 03, 2000 at 22:20:09, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >I have heard that certain programs seem stronger/weaker verses Pentium and >Athylon cpu's. It would be interesting (to me at least) hearing opinions on the >relative merrits of the following programs verses cpu type. Based on slower >clock speed knowledge of two competitors draw your conclusions as to how that >translates to 1 gig devices ( Pentium III's arent being delivered to my >knowledge). > >1 Crafty >2 Junior6 >3 Fritz6 >4 Chess Tiger12 > >I seem to recall that Dr. Bob has said the Pentium is more suitable for Crafty. >If true I wonder how important relative to crafty's playing strength. > >It would be very nice if I could hear from the programmer of each but all inputs >are appreciated, after all end users experience is a important too. It could be that crafty uses SSE in the code, and that improves the speed of searching in Crafty. SSE is properitery of Intel, and Athlon does not and cannot support SSE, and instead of SSE, AMD replaces this part of code with 3D! Now. Laurence
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