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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