Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 11:27:56 01/29/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 15:53:30, Roy Eassa wrote: >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? L1 caches, IIRC: G3/G4: 32k P3: 32k P4: 8k + trace cache Athlon: 128k -Tom
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