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Subject: Re: Huge Caches Mean Faster Chess Engines?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:07:11 06/24/02

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On June 24, 2002 at 10:27:05, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:

>This "latency issue" is interesting.  Could you please elaborate?  How do the
>caches help?

Bandwidth = amount of data that can be transferred per second
Latency = amount of time it takes to find something in the memory

Generally, a chessprogram will need to access small amounts of
data that are scattered randomly throughout the memory of the
machine. Because of this, bandwidth isn't so important, because
there is only a small amount of data, but the latency is.

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GCP

• Re: Huge Caches Mean Faster Chess Engines? Robert Henry Durrett 16:48:02 06/24/02
  • Re: Huge Caches Mean Faster Chess Engines? Robert Hyatt 19:40:48 06/24/02
• Re: Huge Caches Mean Faster Chess Engines? Peter Fendrich 14:35:12 06/24/02

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