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Subject: Re: I didn't!

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 08:35:04 04/18/02

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On April 18, 2002 at 02:30:03, Slater Wold wrote:

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

>>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".


I'm quite certain that most chess programs gain little performance from a faster
FPU, but they all gain from faster integer processing.



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