Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 06:43:52 03/26/02
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On March 25, 2002 at 15:00:56, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On March 25, 2002 at 07:05:26, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>In a year or 10 you may be right, for now not a single 64 bits >>processor is clocked *near* 32 bits processors. > >Vincent, don't be such an idiot. POWER4 runs at 1.3GHz and soon at 1.6GHz. And >the Hammer will run faster than the AXP. What is this crap about 10 years. > >-Tom Tom, i didn't know you can buy a power4 for $200 already. Perhaps we must write down $20000 ? 10 years ago many people said: "now we can get 64 bits soon". in 2002 i still hear it, i have not seen a 64 bits processor faster than a 32 bits processor yet for chessprograms. the hammer first must be on the market, and after that first proof its 64 bits instructions are faster than fastest 32 bits processor. Wanna bet with me for some bottle of wine we won't be able to buy in the stores here in Netherlands (with the biggest port in the world) for say march 2003 a processor that's 64 bits and where diep running 64 bits is faster at than on any 32 bits processor (both production processors, let's not go into overclocking) for under $2000? Note that in DIEP i'm using 'int' everywhere, i'm not using 8 bits nor 16 bits instructions, so a normal native compile is no problem. Best regards, Vincent
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