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Subject: Re: Computer Architecture versus Chess Engine Performance

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:13:21 06/24/02

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On June 24, 2002 at 12:08:43, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:

>If it takes about 100 times as many clock cycles to read from or write to RAM as
>would be required to read or write to a cache, then one might expect a
>hundred-fold improvement in speed.

A chess programs speed is not solely dependent on the speed of
the RAM, hence, this conclusion is flawed.

(But running entirely from cache would be a major speedup indeed)

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GCP



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