Author: Pham Minh Tri
Date: 06:33:13 08/29/01
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On August 29, 2001 at 08:41:42, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On August 29, 2001 at 03:39:52, Pham Minh Tri wrote: > >>I see that recently many computer chess programmers prefer Athlon to Intel. I >>have not any Athlon and experience about it (but planing to buy one). However, I >>see the benchmark of TSCP (in Tom Kerrigan site) shows that Intel is faster than >>Athlon in almost all cases. So I do not understand that preference: because of >>price only? Or is TSCP not a typical chess program (in terms of complexity)? Or >>do I miss something? >>An additional question: Could VC6 optimize for Athlon? >>Thanks. > >www.aceshardware.com to see how an intel optimized version of diep >is already faster at K7. > 120k nps at dual K7 1.2Ghz MP DDR ram > 106k nps at a dual Xeon 1.7 Ghz intel RDRAM > >VC6 with sp5 + processor pack is considerably faster on AMD. > >Still trying to figure out here how much as i can't compile right now >at the AMD. > >Best regards, >Vincent I have read that page about Diep benchmark. Thanks for your information. I am still amazing how your nps is so small, comparing with others. A little worry: does a _typical_ chess program have the same result? Have you ever tried Crafty? (Perhaps your program is a special case because of too heavy knowledge, isn't it?).
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