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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 08:51:31 10/02/02

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On October 02, 2002 at 09:46:14, Maurizio De Leo wrote:

>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

Not to mention 512 :)





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