Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 15:33:16 12/31/02
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On December 31, 2002 at 18:19:53, Dan Andersson wrote: >First of all the AMD CPUs do not run at their PR speed. So comparing on >clockspeed alone the AMD is faster. Secondly I was referring to the statement >that the P4 is faster on all benchmarks. That is not true in the least. Not even >for games. That is the general conclusion. Thirdly some chess programs will run >faster on the P4. TSCP is one case. But it has a puny memory footprint and can >run in cache. You know what they say: "Cache as cache can." : ) As mentioned before, it sure would be good if huge on-wafer caches were to become available and affordable. Then all the engines and hash tables would load into the cache. Maybe the term "latency" would become obsolete. While on "science fiction," what about three-dimensional wafers? They would be really fast, if the heat could get out. Probably cryogenically cooled, or cooled using freon. The "wafer" would be like a sponge, letting the cooling fluid flow freely through the "wafer." Dimensions could be minimized, with three-dimensional "wafers," and hence speed maximized. > >MvH Dan Andersson
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