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

Author: Matt Taylor

Date: 03:13:06 02/21/03

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On February 20, 2003 at 19:09:18, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>It seems you know a lot more than I do about instruction latencies. How do you
>explain Crafty's disproportionate speedup on IA-64, then? And why would you
>think Crafty's performance is a good predictor of other chess programs on IA-64
>when Crafty is so much different from many other programs?
>
>Of course, all we have is Hyatt's word that Crafty does well on IA-64, although
>he's never seen it in person, and people who have seen Crafty run on IA-64 in
>person seem to contradict him...
>
>-Tom

I'm not saying that Crafty is necessarily a good predictor, just a better
predictor than things like gcc and perl. I don't think the speedup on IA-64 is
really due to the 64-bit machine word. Sure, it helps, but read the other post I
made. I don't see how Itanium is going to take a huge lead by virtue of being a
64-bit machine.

-Matt



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