Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 17:04:27 03/23/02
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On March 23, 2002 at 19:34:11, Slater Wold wrote: >On March 23, 2002 at 17:39:21, Sune Fischer wrote: > >I believe Hyatt has done this test before. I *believe* anyway. OK, I just remember it differently, we'll probably see some comments from Hyatt and co. soon ;) >Looking at a few articles, it seems that the speedup *might* be more than 15%, >but not much. The jump from thunderbird to palomino was about 10-15%, compared to that the jump from 32 to 64 _bit_ will be a true revolution in speed, or at least I expect it to be :) I also think a lot of chess codes will be rewritten to take better advantage of the 64 bit variables. 10-15% may be about right for ordinary programs that can't utilize the native 64 bit dword size very well, but chess progs are different in that they are inherently *born* 64 bit. >Besides, no one is going to be able to afford these chips. How many people do >you know who have Itanuim's? Maybe not in the beginning, but AMD has the ability to mass produce their chips, this should help bring down costs quickly. >> >>>> >>>>>-Tom
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