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Subject: Re: 64 bits

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:27:51 06/19/02

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On June 19, 2002 at 20:45:33, Keith Evans wrote:

>On June 19, 2002 at 14:33:56, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>On June 19, 2002 at 13:10:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>I don't care about the 32 bit specint.  I care about the fact that a
>>>1.4ghz pentium runs Crafty at about 750K nodes per second.  The 600mhz
>>>21264 ran it at over 800K.  And 600mhz is _not_ the fastest 21264 around.
>>>
>>>The 1ghz mckinley runs it twice as fast as that 1.4ghz pentium, 1.5M nodes
>>>per second.  _that_ is definitely "something to get excited about" IMHO..
>>
>>So you like the 21264 and the McKinley. That's great. Maybe you can start a fan
>>club, instead of posting to a thread where people are trying to have an
>>intelligent conversation about 64-bit computing.
>>
>>-Tom
>
>Is there an easy way to compare a 1.4 GHz P3 to a 1 GHz McKinley and see where
>this Crafty performance increase is coming from? I'm not at all familiar with
>McKinley, but would it be possible to run a version of Crafty compiled for
>32-bits on a McKinley and compare that to a Crafty compiled for 64-bits on
>McKinley? Is this a dumb idea? If this isn't possible, then it's going to be
>difficult to tell where the performance gain is really coming from.
>
>-Keith

I don't know that you could do this.  It would require that the compiler know
how to implement 64 bit ints as 2x32 bits, which on a mckinley would be a waste
of the compiler-writer's time...



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