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Subject: Re: Paris/ AMD K6 us Pentium2 / MChess

Author: Chris Whittington

Date: 13:16:06 11/04/97

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On November 04, 1997 at 13:09:56, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>>I think it has nothing to do with cpu optimizations. The key is the
>>big Level-1 cache of the AMD. Because Rebel uses a lot of memory and
>>instructions in the evaluation function (the heart of each chess
>>program) Rebel will profit more from the Level-1 cache than others.
>>
>>I assume a program like CSTAL profits even more.


Probably, but I hate these bloody PC speed threads. These are chess
programs not bits bytes L2 L1 alpha cache nazi machines.

I prefer chess algortihms to 64-bit optimaistion and cache bollocks :)

The ones that are always droning on about bits, bytes and 64 bits are
the ones who get surprised when their programs fail to perform in chess
tournaments.

Chris


>>
>>Chris?
>>
>
>CSTal is to big for the first-level cache !
>
>The Pentium2/300 was exactly 1.57 times faster than my K6/200.
>
>I think Mchess on a p2/300 would run a little faster than Mchess on
>k6/233 Peter used in Paris.
>
>I have heard AMD has problems with the 233 CPU's.
>In general the k6/200 runs ok, but some 233 run not steadily.
>They crash depending on heat and motherboard ...
>
>It looks AMD has problems to bring out faster CPU's for the same
>reasons.
>So the p2/300 is in fact leading although it is very expensive.



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