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Subject: Re: Pentium 4 version of Yace

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 17:02:33 09/21/01

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On September 21, 2001 at 20:00:36, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 21, 2001 at 19:42:20, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On September 21, 2001 at 18:25:20, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>Will not run on any chip besides Pentium 4:
>>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/yaceip4.exe
>>>
>>>Slightly better MMX version:
>>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/yaceimmx.exe
>>
>>Dan how fast is P4 for it compared to K7 and the speed diff between
>>a normal optimized version?
>
>Apparently, the special P4 build does not seem to add anything to the
>performance.  From what I am hearing from those who have tried it, there is no
>real increase in performance.
>
>Using the Intel compiler with /G7 /QxW is supposed to create better binaries for
>that platform.  Looks like a bust so far.  I probably will have to do PGO.
>Unfortunately, while we have P4 chips, I don't have one connected to my list of
>computers I can switch to using my OmniView switch.  So I would have to go use
>someone else's terminal to mess around.
>
>Looks like this experiment fell on its face.

Too bad. Note i doubt that it's possible to get a real huge speedup
by different compile.



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