Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:05:26 04/24/01
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On April 24, 2001 at 08:37:04, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On April 24, 2001 at 03:33:29, Trefor Deane wrote: > >>Are all the best Chess Programs only written for the PC,Can anyone please >>recommend any Chess Programs for Apples G4 processor? Here in the UK we don't >>seem to have the same choice that you guys have. >>Thanks >> >>Tref. > >Apple is everything but helpful. I emailed them last 2 weeks >and they don't want to say a thing. I have no idea how slow diep would >be on a G4, they only make PR for how fast their FPU (called velocity >engine at the g4) is. > >My sister has a dual G4 at home, so i'll compile DIEP there one day. >However for programmers G4 isn't interesting in advance as it >runs at most at 733Mhz and dual at 533Mhz. Compare that to a dual 1Ghz intel >and within a few months dual 1.5Ghz K7 !! That doesn't say a thing. Compare a 600mhz 21264 to a 1.5ghz intel. The 21264 will blow the doors off the Intel processor in any benchmark. The G* processors are very very good, even without outlandish clock rates. Does it really matter if the cpu runs at 1.5 ghz if it can't get data to/from memory that fast? Bus speed is also important... Intel is lagging there.
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