Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:25:19 04/20/01
I talked with a friend who told me that he intends to buy pentium4. He is using his computer mainly for chess. I told him that PIII is better for chess programs. He did not believe it and when I told him that people found it about the chess programs of today he told me that the reason is probably the fact that the programmers of chess programs are from the old generation and do not know how to use the pentium4 effectively. He asks how is it possible that the pentiumIV do things faster when these things are irrelevant for chess programs. I have also some questions 1)Is it possible to write chess programs that are optimized for the pentium4 and not for the pentium3 so pentium4 is faster than pentium3 with the same megaherth speed? 2)Is it truth that the pentium3 is faster for integers when the pentium4 is faster for using variables that are not integers and using integers is always better even on pIV? Uri
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