Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 20:26:30 12/24/00
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On December 24, 2000 at 20:14:02, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On December 24, 2000 at 06:47:14, David Blackman wrote: > >>64 bit chips have been widely available since about 1990. Crafty runs fine on >>them. A few of the other top programs also work on 64 bit CPUs but as far as i >>know the public can't get hold of copies. > >excuse me which 64 bits processor which i can afford for not too much >money is going to outgun my dual PIII800? > >Since 1990 i have been looking for an affordable 64 bits chip but >didn't find it. also 64 bits 21164 chip at 633Mhz with 8kb l1 cache >is of course getting completely outgunned by a PII processor at whatever >speed above or equal to 400Mhz. > >Also i wonder how intel plans to clock 64 bits processors above 700Mhz >when they get introduced; this will be at a time that most likely 32 >bits processors are clocked like 2 Ghz easily. > >>When (or if) Itanium and Sledgehammer arrive, Crafty will work on them almost >>immediately. In fact the Itanium port has been done, and will no doubt be >>released as soon as you can get the chip. I haven't heard of anyone doing a >>Sledgehammer port, but it could be done easily, and it's possible someone might >>have done it quietly. > >Crafty will profit most likely a lot from 64 bits processors, alpha always >has clearly proven that. But what OS is going to run for us at 64 bits? > >Linux? Windows too. Eugene >>For the commercial programs, i think about half of them will be available pretty >>quickly as soon as the chips start to sell to the public. The guys that wrote a >>lot of code in assembler will be sweating a bit though, and might be a bit >>slower to catch up. > >Not if only linux runs on that chip... ...and for a windoze port i don't >know what time we can wait but if it gets released the msvc compiler for >it is going to eat gcc alive. > >Greetings, >Vincent
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