Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 21:59:05 12/30/02
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On December 30, 2002 at 23:36:04, Terry McCracken wrote: >On December 30, 2002 at 20:38:27, Bob Durrett wrote: > >> >>Has anybody tried this yet? [tried to run their Fritz 8 on a 64-bit machine] >> >>Would Fritz 8 crash the computer? [smoke and fire] >> >>Would Fritz 8 run at all? [or maybe the talk CD would give some choice words?] >> >>Or, what? [Wait for Fritz 9?] >> >>: ) >> >>Bob D. > >If you can afford an Itanium Processor based system, from Intel, Fritz 8 would >"Burn Rubber", no need to wait! Are you sure it will even run on it? I suspect it would be slow as molasses unless someone has actually done a recompile for Itanium. It's a different architecture than x86. It has a different instruction set. If Fritz is not bitboard based, there is probably very little to be gained by a 64 bit CPU (even with a recompile), unless the raw throughput of the chip is substantially higher. I would guess that a dual 2.8 GHz machine running Deep Fritz would clobberize something running on Itanium under an emulator. The Opteron/Hammer (on the other hand) will run x86 software untouched out of the box. However, it won't take advantage of the 64 bit registers unless it has been recompiled. Which raises a question: Does anyone know of a compiler for the Opteron/Hammer?
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