Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 14:35:12 06/24/02
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On June 24, 2002 at 13:07:11, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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. I would say that chessprograms are designed like that because lack of bandwidth. With significantly more bandwidth a lot of things could be done differently. Peter > >-- >GCP
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