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Subject: Re: Does 64 bit architecture have any benefit on chess programs?

Author: Maurizio De Leo

Date: 06:46:14 10/02/02

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On October 02, 2002 at 05:55:39, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On October 01, 2002 at 08:00:26, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>Obviously the bitboard programs will profit. We can guess from alpha
>>specs that it's about 33% profit.
>
>Really? How can we guess that? What specs?
>
>>A default compile from DIEP at an Itanium2/McKinley for example it is
>>33% faster at it than it is at a K7 at the same clock.
>>That's *very* good. Obviously it's a mixture of Level caches and especially
>>doing bundles of 6 instructions a clock.
>
>What a load of BS. 33% faster than a 1GHz Athlon gives you 1.33GHz Athlon
>performance. How is this "*very* good"? You can get a 1.33GHz Athlon on
>Pricewatch for $52.
>
>-Tom

But you can't put 8 or 16 athlon 1.33 in a multiprocessor system !

Maurizio




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