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Subject: Re: somewhat significant

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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