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Subject: Re: When Will the Top Chess Programs be 64 bit?

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 07:54:48 08/14/03

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On August 14, 2003 at 10:48:20, Bob Durrett wrote:

>
>According to the SSDF list, the top engines are Junior, Shredder, Fritz, Tiger,
>etceteras.  They are all 32 bit.
>
>I am afraid to purchase a 64 bit computer because the only chess software that
>would run on it is Crafty, and the database managers such as ChessBase would be
>useless too!
>
>When will the rest of the world catch up with Bob Hyatt????
>
>Bob D.

opteron runs 32 bit code just fine.

switching to 64 bits would help J/S/F/T a little bit (more registers mainly) but
also hurt them due to increased icache size.

it might never happen.

anthony

P.S. beware vincent and his "bitboards suck" routine.  You may have brought him
down on your head.



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