Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:20:42 12/02/02
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On December 02, 2002 at 02:52:17, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On December 01, 2002 at 21:04:54, Arshad F. Syed wrote: > >>I am not much of an expert on this, since I am just starting to get into >>assembly programming. But I was curious about the dword used here, which implies >>to me you are doing 32-bit stuff. Wouldn't it make life simpler to just get an >>Itanium processor and switch to 64-bit code, which would cut down the cycles >>used. > >They're $$$ like $$$ expensive $$$ ! > >But yes, having a 64-bit CPU makes all this kind of stuff easier >and faster. Hopefully we'll get fast and affordable ones soon. > >-- >GCP They are definitely not cheap at the moment. An Itanium2 at 900 mhz goes for about $2,800 bucks on Pricewatch. That will produce NPS values of > 1.5M for Crafty, for reference (don't think a 900mhz itanium will get blown off by a 3ghz PIV for example) and possibly higher with some asm tweaking as has been done by Eugene for the X86 version...
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