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Subject: Re: News about intel multi-processor hardware

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 14:56:56 06/24/02

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On June 23, 2002 at 19:50:11, pavel wrote:

We know it for sure. Fritz is assembly. How else do you
guess he gets 2 million nodes a second at a dual K7 ?

Ed says Rebel is a combination of C + assembly. I don't believe
it at all though. They all say they are in C, but reality is that
Ed doesn't know a word C. The engine is completely assembly i assume.
Interface is C perhaps.

>On June 23, 2002 at 19:16:24, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>It's been said 100 times.  Fritz is written in assembly.  In order to port it to
>>64-bit, Frans would have to re-write the entire program.
>>
>
>We dont know that for sure, it's mostly assumptions.
>We know about the source of fritz as much as we know about the source of any
>other commercial programs, nothing.
>
>besides there is no point of porting fritz for this hardware, unless there is a
>significant amount of customers.
>Maybe 10-20 people atmost inthe world will buy these systems for computer-chess.
>why bother?
>
>cheers,
>pavs



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