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Subject: Re: I didn't!

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 23:30:03 04/17/02

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On April 17, 2002 at 19:58:09, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>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?

No.  It is the *EXACT* same version, on the exact same HD.

>>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.

I've always understood they did.  Perhaps I have been told wrong.

Well, I've been told "Excellent FPU Performance == Greater Chess Performance".



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