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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