Author: Rafael Andrist
Date: 08:11:25 04/20/01
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On April 20, 2001 at 03:25:19, Uri Blass wrote: >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? > If one programmer optimize his program for the P IV, then it will be faster on this CPU. Most of the programs are optimized for P III. >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? > Using integers is always faster. >Uri Rafael B. Andrist
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