Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:53:30 01/28/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 15:32:23, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >Something that's interesting is that HIARCS used to run much faster on a Mac >than on a PC, and I believe the reason was the much larger L2 cache on the Mac. >So this big L3 cache will probably help for HIARCS again. I doubt it would give >much benefit for other chess programs, though. Most data I've seen indicates >that chess programs run almost as well on Celerons and Durons with very small L2 >caches as they do on the cachier Pentiums and Athlons. > >-Tom Thank you for the info. I indeed thought I had heard that, MHz for MHz, Hiarcs 7 for the PowerPC was quite a bit stronger than Hiarcs 7 for the Intel/AMD chips. And doesn't the PowerPC have a larger L1 cache still, or is that no longer true?
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