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Subject: Re: Preliminary Itanium scores running x86 code.

Author: Gregor Overney

Date: 13:24:32 01/24/01

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On January 24, 2001 at 07:13:16, Dan Andersson wrote:

>Yes, you dont tell me something I dont know already, but there was a thread
>about the itanium as a chess platform. And someone proposed to use the native
>IA32 instructions.

If I am not mistaken, IA-32 includes SIMD and MMX-2. So, if your compiler
supports this, you could greatly enhance the performance. x86 is something that
runs on a 386-DX.

Gregor



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