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Subject: Re: Die Win XP ! Die !

Author: Artem Pyatakov

Date: 12:32:37 08/06/01

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>Have you seen improvement in the NPS for crafty?
>We (@ work) use  a lot of memory manipulation for RF signal generation
>and there seems to be no speed improvement. However a normal (average)
>signal is 500M-Samples (2GB) in size ... chess programs normally don't deal
>with such large chunks of memory.
>
>regards.
>hristo
>
>p.s.
>   Govorite po ruskii?

Unfortunately, I do not have specific benchmarks for Crafty, because I got
involved with Chess programming about 4 months ago, and I was already using XP
exclusively at this point.  But I would imagine that the performance improvement
compared to Win2K would be very insignifant especially if the program is written
correctly (i.e. does not constantly allocate and deallocate memory). I am
guessing that areas that might see improvement are things like in low-memory
conditions "forcing" everything else out of memory efficiently to make sure that
the chess program does not start using the pagefile (which would be horrible, of
course). But again, I am just theoretically concluding this from the kernel
enhancements that I read about.

Artem

P.S. Yes, I do speak Russian... My name definitely gives away my origin :)



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