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Subject: Re: IA-64 vs OOOE (attn Taylor, Hyatt)

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 18:52:40 02/15/03

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On February 13, 2003 at 18:12:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>If you had ever followed discussions on Cray Blitz, you would know that we did a
>lot of
>things in it that I can't do in crafty due to the cost.  For example,
>"qualitative mobility".
>Not just the number of squares a piece can move to, but the number of squares it
>can move
>to safely _and_ how useful the square is (ie e4 is much better than a8).  Or

Bah. This discussion is worthless. You say that Cray processors are blazingly
fast and your only evidence is that some arbitrary program runs at an arbitrary
speed.

The 1MHz Z80 is faster than a Cray because it runs lightcycles at 10 kilopixels
per second. Can't argue with that.

-Tom



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