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Subject: Re: Will next generation, i.e, Shredder 8, Fritz 9, CT16, be opt. for 64bit?

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 15:49:42 07/09/03

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On July 08, 2003 at 22:08:22, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 08, 2003 at 21:13:41, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>As 64 bit computers are now beginning on the market, I might hope that the top
>>new program upgrades to come, after now, will already be optimized for 64 bit,
>>such as Opteron etc.
>>Will this already be done, by the coming Christmas?
>>S.Taylor
>
>I do not care.
>They need to be optimized for only one thing that is playing chess.
>
>small constant speed improvements are not very important for that task.
>
>Uri

Are you saying that for chess, the best that could come from 64-bit programming
is to be a doubling of speed?
S.Taylor



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