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Subject: Re: Athlon vs Intel question?

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 08:25:57 08/29/01

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On August 29, 2001 at 06:05:47, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 29, 2001 at 03:39:52, Pham Minh Tri wrote:
>
>>Or is TSCP not a typical chess program (in terms of complexity)? Or
>>do I miss something?
>
>I suspect TSCP may do so well on P4 because of it's very small size.
>
>Nearly everything else seems to run better on Athlon indeed.
>
>>An additional question: Could VC6 optimize for Athlon?
>
>VC6 can't optimize for anything newer than the original Pentium Pro.

What I do not understand is that in the last service pack I remember
that MS claims that It can optimize for newer processors. I could not
find how. Was this incorrect?

Regards,
Miguel


>
>Generally, the Athlon will do fine running programs optimized
>for Pentiums too.
>
>--
>GCP



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