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Subject: Re: crafty on Athlon 64

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 16:17:38 12/30/02

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On December 30, 2002 at 16:06:09, Matt Taylor wrote:

>On December 30, 2002 at 11:39:37, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>Details of the SPECint2000 :
>>http://www.heise.de/ct/03/01/018/bild.gif
>>
>>Athlon64@1.2GHz : 868
>>Pentium4@2.2Ghz : 850
>>
>>Not bad, but no revolution, I thought it would be faster than that on a 64 bits
>>machine ...
>>
>>The athlon would run at about 2 Ghz in april 2003
>
>Is that compiled in 64-bit (native) or using the same 32-bit benchmark on both?
>There is a huge difference between 64-bit code and 32-bit code here, and it's
>not JUST because of machine word differences which will likely benefit Chess
>engines some.
>
>-Matt

This is the HUGE PROBLEM with using Crafty for this purpose.  Crafty already
runs on 64 bit machines, if I understand Hyatt correctly.  Other engines, not
designed for 64 bit might give entirely different results.

Bob D.



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