Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:31:45 11/07/00
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On November 07, 2000 at 23:49:27, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On November 07, 2000 at 21:03:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On November 07, 2000 at 20:09:12, Gregor Overney wrote: >> >>>Just got the newest Crafty 17.14. As mentioned in main.c, Win64 compliant >>>pointer definitions are used. >>> >>>What is the expected speed improvement when going from Win32 to Win64 for >>>Crafty? Some of you might have access to early 64-bit Visual C compilers. >>> >>>Gregor >> >> >>It depends on when IA64 becomes available. Although there was (once upon >>a time) a windows NT port for alphas. > >I'm sure it's still possible to get it somewhere. I'm rather disappointed that >Compaq decided to dump the NT/Alpha program, but I suppose it wasn't one of >their big sellers. :P > >>Eugene sent the changes as he is running Crafty on IA64 machines inside >>Microsoft, apparently. > >Has he reported anything about Crafty's speed on these machines (i.e., how fast >are they compared to, say, the Alpha 21264s)? IIRC, he did say before that >there were a couple Itanium machines running there in his office, but I think >they were only like 400-600MHz or something. I'm interested to know more about >them. :) > >Jeremiah I don't remember any numbers, which probably means he hasn't given me any. I think NT was dropped by Microsoft when they had some sort of disagreement with Compaq, but I don't recall the details...
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