Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:12:10 12/03/02
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On December 02, 2002 at 20:16:27, Bob Durrett wrote: >On December 02, 2002 at 18:26:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On December 02, 2002 at 17:21:07, Bob Durrett wrote: > ><snip> > >>> >>>Incidentally, I doubt that either AMD or Intel care one whit about chess >>>engines. > >> >>You'd be wrong, because Crafty is in _the_ benchmark that everyone uses to >>compare >>raw CPU power. I've talked to _every_ chip manufacturer over time, helping them >>understand the code, helping them track down compiler bugs with high levels of >>optimization, etc. They aren't paranoid about it, but they do take notice since >>chess >>is "in the mix." > ><snip> > >Wow!!!! > >Sincerely, if Bob Hyatt had accomplished nothing else but to get chess "in the >mix," that alone would be sufficient. That is a great accomplishment, IMHO. : >) It was done on a suggestion by someone at Intel. It turned into a lot of work as a few vendors had a serious compiler problem here and there when faced with "long long" data types and library code that was not really tested very well on 64 bit stuff. Sun took a while, for example. :)
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