Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 14:13:04 03/30/01
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On March 30, 2001 at 11:26:06, Dan Andersson wrote: >The subject matter is quite tricky. Currently SDRAM is a bit quicker at the >first memory access but that will most probably change and then DDR SDRAM will >be clearly better. But since a chess program does other things than memory >lookups it is clear that more slow memory is preferable to a smaller amount of >fast memory as the transposition table is a trade of memory/resources for speed. >Just as you might trade money for speed by buying much fast DDR. This is subject >to change when new/improved memory technologies evolve. > >Regards Dan Andersson Interesting to know is whether 2 cache lines are faster for current DDR RAM as 2 cache lines for SDRAM. Also what is the length of a ddr ram cache line?
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