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Subject: Re: Hammer info. And som SMP musings.

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 13:57:28 03/24/02

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On March 23, 2002 at 17:28:46, Dan Andersson wrote:

>The Sledgehammer seems to be a NUMA arhitecture. That's a difference that will
>impact SMP enabled chess programs.

Nothing has been said about latencies to different memory banks and I don't see
why you would think that Hammers won't be cache coherent. Even if the latencies
are different, I doubt they'd be any worse than latencies through a northbridge,
and latencies have precious little impact on chess programs anyway.

-Tom



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