Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:37:02 12/01/02
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On December 01, 2002 at 04:35:09, David Rasmussen wrote: >On November 30, 2002 at 23:40:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >> >>And some have reported no speedup for DF as well, but I don't worry since I >>don't have anything to do with that program. But as far as "does crafty have >>trouble with AMD?" or "does AMD have trouble with Crafty?" the two questions >>are identical... >> > >Sure, but that doesn't mean that a program like Crafty couldn't be made to run >as fast on Athlons as on P4's, or faster. It is your design choice. There is >nothing that makes it harder on the Athlons than on the P4. You've chosen to >make them faster on P4. > >/David I haven't "chosen" anything, in fact. I just wrote the code. It has a pretty high memory bandwidth requirement, by design, and AMD is simply lagging there. It wasn't intended to be that way but Intel has done some good things with memory and it shows, at least for Crafty...
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