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Subject: Re: I didn't!

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 16:58:09 04/17/02

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On April 17, 2002 at 14:48:46, Slater Wold wrote:

>On April 17, 2002 at 12:21:26, Shep wrote:
>
>>On April 16, 2002 at 19:40:53, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>AMD 2x1.53Ghz
>>>
>>>Dhrystone ALU: 5664 MIPS
>>
>>>AMD 2x1.73Ghz
>>>
>>>Dhrystone ALU: 9651 MIPS
>>
>>Can this be correct? After all, you pumped up the MHz by only 2x16% or so, yet
>>get a 80% speedup.
>>
>>---
>>Shep
>
>It is using the *same* exact program.  (Sandra)  And I promise, these are the
>figures reported.

Did you use a different version of Sandra?

>Also, that's the ALU, not the FPU.  Chess performance comes from the FPU.  And

Chess programs do not use floating point - they do almost all work in the ALU.



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