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

Author: emerson tan

Date: 05:26:27 08/15/03

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On August 14, 2003 at 16:22:54, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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????
>
>Mine (Deep Sjeng) has been 64 bit for quite a while now. I posted results
>from the native 64 bit Opteron version just a few days ago. It's extremely fast.
>
>The Opteron will run 32 bits programs. And it will run 64 bit programs
>even faster.
>
>I'm getting myself one.
>
>--
>GCP


Hi

How much faster is 64 bit compared to 32 bit?



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