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Subject: Re: Deep Sjeng Opteron Performance Results

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 17:35:18 08/06/03

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On August 06, 2003 at 20:10:26, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>>I'm not familar with GCC. I guess you compared a x86-64 executable running on a
>>single opteron processor, all sixteen 64-bit gp-registers used, with a x86-32
>>executable.
>
>Yes. The x86-32 executable has significant amounts of optimized assembly,
>the AMD64 compile was straight from the reference C code. It compiled
>directly BTW, no porting issues (unlike Mac OS version!).
>
>>A few questions:
>>
>>Do you use a lot of 64-bit stuff in Deep Sjeng?
>
>Depends on what a lot is :) Deep Sjeng can
>certainly take advantage of the native 64 bit
>processing, if that helps you.

Is Sjeng bitboard based? It is interesting to know that in the context of the
old discussion regarding the benefit of bitboard engines from 64-bit processors
(in comparison to 0x88 and other non-bitboard engines...).


>
>>Did you use profile guided optimization?
>
>Yes. They give a performance gain of 0.8%.
>
>--
>GCP



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