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Subject: Re: books and final final final explanations

Author: Moritz Berger

Date: 07:48:17 09/15/98

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On September 15, 1998 at 10:35:49, Dirk Frickenschmidt wrote:

>On September 15, 1998 at 01:35:25, Kai Skibbe wrote:
>
>Hi Kai,
>
>I don't have a K6 processor. From all I heard the K6 is a very nice alternative
>to the Intel Processors.
>
>Concerning Fritz5 on K6, let me cite Moritz Berger, who was one of those noting
>that other porgrams profited more from the K6 than Fritz5 (the latter being
>optimized for the still most spread Intels):
>
>Moritz wrote:
>>In my experience, Fritz runs about 25-30% faster on P200MMX than on K6-200.
>
>I don't know if this is something else with your K6 II-333 compared to a Pentium
>II 300.
>
>I only know that Fritz5 would do comparably better by around 25-30% speed in the
>SSDF matches or in my matches with two 200MMX machines compared to Thorsten's
>match on two K6-200. This is, as far as I understood, due to the fact that the
>Fritz5 code has been optimized for the more widespread Intel architecture.

PII (P6 core) is also worse than P5MMX for Fritz 5 ... AFAIK Fritz 6 will be
optimized for PII ...


Moritz



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