Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:59:04 04/19/00
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On April 19, 2000 at 14:44:00, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >On April 19, 2000 at 13:57:26, Dan Andersson wrote: > >>>I don't think FPU performance is significant for chess analysis, so the Pentium >>>appears to be more suitable in this respect. >> >>It doesn't follow that the athlon has a substandard integer unit. >>Price/Performance ratings favour the Athlon on almost all counts. > >The latest info on Tom's rates only FPU as superior to Pent III coppermine 1 >giz. I can not intrepet the Integer performance out of his test data. Can you ? >Thanks. And from the previous thread maybe FPU is _not_ important to chess >software, I dunno, have to get the advise from Dr Hyatt or others. >Wayne FP performance is meaningless for chess programs... although for bitmappers, the mmx instructions would be useful if there was a portable way of accessing them... or if we could coax the compilers to emit them to do long long bitwise operators...
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