Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 09:41:46 08/27/02
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On August 27, 2002 at 12:39:10, Leen Ammeraal wrote: >When playing long (WinBoard) matches on each of my >two computers, my newer computer (Pentium 3), >gives a considerably better score for my new program >version than my older computer, which >has a Cyrix P166 processor. >I tried to compensate for the slowness of >the latter machine by allowing it to >think longer. >Has anyone an idea how serious I should take >the rather disappointing results on this >older machine? I know very little of hardware, >but I could imagine, for example, that this >Cyrix P166 is particularly bad in 64 bit operations, >so that switching from 32 bit to 64 bit (bitboard) operations >might make the program stronger on the newer machine >but weaker on the older one. >Could this really be the case? Yes. Despite that the Cyrix166 is supposed to be as fast as the Pentium166, there are quite a few cases when it has problems getting half the speed of the latter. This is really not a very good CPU, even more so because most programs are optimized for Pentium, not Cyrix166. -- GCP
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