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

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 20:59:10 01/29/02

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On January 28, 2002 at 19:31:41, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>We have very fast L1 caches and processors nowadays and Crays are not
>even processors but some big massive things put on each other. Obviously
>L1 cache is not present (if i understood well).
>But memory speed versus L1 cache is no compare of course.
>So the whole comparision is WRONG here.

Ignoring your bad English here ("big massive things put on each other"??) it's
obvious that you've gone way off track. You and Jay were talking about short
vector processing, remember? What's with the L1 cache crap?

>Add to that that the velocity engine is for floating point, so how you

That is absolutely false.

>plan to use that is a big mystery to me. Further add to that that the
>velocity engine is a big joke compared to what a Cray can do for you
>when talking about multiplication of big arrays.

Who in the world was talking about multiplication of big arrays??

>Did you ever make your own chess engine?

And if he didn't, so what? The fact that you did doesn't mean anything in this
discussion.

-Tom



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