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Subject: Re: Time to Buy a New Computer? Have 1 GHz.

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 21:02:41 06/22/02

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On June 22, 2002 at 18:52:07, Rajen Gupta wrote:

>and
>what evidence is there other than wishful thinking that 64 bit is faster than 32
>bit.

Find the post about 64-bit CPUs and read Bob Hyatt's posts about how much faster
Crafty is on a 64-bit machine. I think a 64-bit 1 GHz processor ran Crafty at
1.5 Mnps. What does a single processor 1GHz machine run Crafty at? 500 Knps?

There's your evidence, and the 64-bit cpu's are still having a lot of the
bugginess worked out, so it could potentially get better. Not to mention when
the actual speeds of the processor go up.

Of course, 64-bit isn't going to make all programs faster. It's only going to
benefit those programs that rely heavily on 64-bit operations, which is what
Crafty does.

Russell



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