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

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:11:07 03/24/02

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On March 23, 2002 at 17:32:36, Dan Andersson wrote:

>I am not missing the point Tom. The P4 is seriously lacking in functional units.
>And the memory reads coupled with the data dependencies in a chess search. Make
>me doubt there will be much gain.

The P4, IIRC, has more functional units than the P3, and because of scheduling
restrictions due to the longer pipeline, they are almost certainly idle more. I
don't see how memory reads and data dependencies relate to SMT.

-Tom



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