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Subject: Re: New G4's: Dual 1 GHz should be fast!

Author: Jay Scott

Date: 14:43:29 01/28/02

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On January 28, 2002 at 13:17:20, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>Photoshop and such rendering programs can make use of the velocity
>engine in the G4, which is of no use for computerchess

I disagree.

 If Cray Blitz was able to get benefits from the Cray's long vectors with slow
startup times, then a chess program written for AltiVec should get bigger
benefits from the low-overhead short vectors of AltiVec. The architecture looks
like a good match to me.

• Re: New G4's: Dual 1 GHz should be fast! Will Singleton 00:39:58 01/30/02
• Re: New G4's: Dual 1 GHz should be fast! Vincent Diepeveen 16:31:41 01/28/02
  • Re: New G4's: Dual 1 GHz should be fast! Tom Kerrigan 20:59:10 01/29/02
    • Re: New G4's: Dual 1 GHz should be fast! Vincent Diepeveen 06:17:54 01/30/02
      • Re: New G4's: Dual 1 GHz should be fast! Tom Kerrigan 11:30:14 01/30/02

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