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Subject: Re: The old Intel vs AMD question again. Redux. New SPEC numbers for XP

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:10:34 10/24/01

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On October 24, 2001 at 16:09:36, Dan Andersson wrote:

>Memory bandwidth is greater, but latency is suspect still. So you need to add
>that a chess program must use no hash table. That makes any chess program that
>is fast on a P4 a 'toy' one.

Even large chess programs make such little use of main memory that latency
doesn't really matter and bandwidth matters even less.

-Tom



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