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Subject: Re: fritz 5 ,genius 5, CM5000 etc on Alpha microprocessor based PC

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 04:53:21 11/08/97

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On November 08, 1997 at 05:21:30, Komputer Korner wrote:

>BUT Bob, doesn't the DEC recompile the code in a translation so that the
>2nd time that the code runs, it runs a lot quicker.

It runs a lot quicker, but not as quick as a native application.

At one point I ran x86 Ferret on a 500 mhz Alpha, it did about 70K nps
in the starting position.  It was doing 95K nps on a P6/200 and maybe
160K nps when compiled native for Alpha.

bruce



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