Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 15:33:14 05/22/03
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On May 22, 2003 at 08:26:49, Trefor Deane wrote: >Are the 25Mhz H8 processors in Novags Star computers stronger, or improvements >on the ones in my 32Mhz Sapphire 2, and 26.6Mhz Emerald Classic Plus? >I know that the new machines have a lot more chess knowledge programmed into >them, as well as considerably more storage, but it was my opinion that this >extra knowledge and RAM would require a faster processor to do it justice, not a >slower one? > >Prehaps the RISC/CISC definition processors define this? > >Can anyone clear this up for me (and probably many others) please? > >Regards to you all > >Trefor It depends on the program. I imagine programs on this scale are oracle-based and adding more knowledge to the oracle probably doesn't slow down the program much, if at all. Extra RAM can be used to speed a program up, too. E.g., Precomputing data and storing it in tables. I looked up the H8 and it sounds like a RISC chip but it only seems to do 1 MIPS per 10MHz, which means it's probably not pipelined. What are the other processors in question? For comparison, fast PCs these days do > 5000 MIPS. :) -Tom
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