Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:58:15 08/29/01
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On August 29, 2001 at 09:33:13, Pham Minh Tri wrote: >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?). Go to www.spec.org and look at specint numbers. Crafty is one of those. You can find numbers for almost every CPU on the market.
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