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Subject: Re: Benchmarks for Athlon 600 and Athlon 1200 are wanted

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 18:35:59 03/28/01

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On March 28, 2001 at 19:22:13, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:

>On March 28, 2001 at 10:20:14, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>[snip]
>>And it is clear for me that multiprocessor computers will not be the mainstream
>>in the foreseeable future.
>
>An idea I have been reading about is Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT). This
>allows one processor to schedule instructions from different threads
>simultaneously. Compaq has announced this for the alpha ev8 and there are rumors
>that Intel will also use SMT. If this becomes standard, single threaded chess
>programs will be at a noticeable disadvantage.


You can wait and see. But I won't. :)


    Christophe



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