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Subject: Re: Opteron Specifics

Author: Roberto Nerici

Date: 01:30:50 07/01/03

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On July 01, 2003 at 02:01:13, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On July 01, 2003 at 01:48:25, Luis Smith wrote:
>
>>I believe Robert Hyatt said Crafty was 64 bit from the first day he ported it
>>over to C from Cray, but I could be wrong...
>
>I think he means that he wants a version of Crafty that is compiled specifically
>for the Opteron's 64-bit capabilities, rather than running a 32-bit version on
>the 64-bit hardware.

Yes, I agree, and that is the important distinction. There have recently been a
number of posts (not surprisingly) regarding Opterons/Athlon 64s and Crafty and
SPECmarks etc, but sometimes 32bit figures are being quoted and sometimes 64bit
ones.

Right now most of us can't do much with a 64 bit version, but I think those are
the interesting figures. I want to know what difference the 64 bit code makes,
and then I can spend the next x years looking forward to seeing the difference
myself...

Roberto/.



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