Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 05:40:50 05/22/01
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On May 22, 2001 at 08:10:15, martin fierz wrote: >hi, > >i just got myself a PIV CPU at 1.4GHz and i'm slightly surprised that my >checkers program isnt running any faster on it than on a PIII 866 (that's right >- NO faster, not even 5%). my guess is that the CPU is sitting around waiting >for data. up to now, from Pentium 150 to to PIII 450 to K7 600 to PIII866 my >nodes/sec scaled pretty well with MHz, just with this new CPU not anymore. the >computer has a 100MHz bus architecture, so it's not very fast there, although it >has fast 400MHz RAM. >has anyone else observed such a thing with a fast PIV? is it possible that this >is the bottleneck for my program? is there one component in today's computers >which is generally the bottleneck? is there a way for me to make an estimate by >looking at my code if this could be the problem? > >cheers > martin Hi! Yes most chess-programs, performs on a P4-1,4 as an Athlon or P3-800. Bertil
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