Author: Slater Wold
Date: 05:02:29 05/27/02
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On May 27, 2002 at 07:47:13, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On May 27, 2002 at 06:37:49, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On May 27, 2002 at 06:23:38, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >> >>>If only looking at the speed of the chess programs [not much difference] and >>>considering the price between AMD 1.73 GHz and P4 2.53 GHz [much difference], >>>the decision of what to buy should still be an easy one: AMD and by the way, >>>such comparisons [oranges with apples] do not count for me. Finally, I think it >>>is just a matter of taste which CPU to prefer. >>>Kurt >> >>This wasn't testing price. It wasn't testing value. It wasn't testing users >>taste. >> >>It was testing one thing: speed. >> >>And say all you want, Intel has the fastest CPU available. > >please wait with that conclusion before you have a K7 optimized >executable. Obviously that requires gcc 3.1, >but even the msvc compiled executable (which is already way faster >than the intel one) is going to kick butt here i guess, despite >that it has no K7 optimizations and no branch prediction reordering >pass (already only the branch prediction reordering is like 12.5% >extra speedup for DIEP, even if it's less for crafty, DO THE MATH). You're not going to get a faster EXE than the Intel 5.0 one. It makes the fastest Crafty EXE known to man. And just to recap: AMD 1.73Ghz using optimized Intel 5.0 compiler: 940k nps P4 2.53Ghz using the EXE off Hyatt's FTP site: 965k nps
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