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Subject: Re: Crafty SPEC

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 22:39:08 06/25/03

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On June 26, 2003 at 00:10:02, Cameron Hayne wrote:

>I recall Bob Hyatt saying a while back (on the newsgroup rgcc) that one of the
>things he had to take account of in moving from Cray Blitz to Crafty was the
>relatively slow memory bandwidth of PC-class machines. I think one of the most
>significant improvements of the G5 is the huge increase in bus speed - it runs
>at half the speed of the CPU. This might enable some improvements in Crafty.

Unfortunately, G5 has higher main memory latency than G4. It went up from 93ns
to 135ns.

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2087.html

Thanks,
Eugene



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