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Subject: Re: Opinions

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:46:40 09/07/03

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On September 07, 2003 at 09:42:20, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On September 07, 2003 at 06:09:32, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On September 06, 2003 at 19:18:17, Sietel Monic wrote:
>>
>>>Deep Junior 8 came out qbout 3-4 months ago... so you dont have to wait at all.
>>>And no it's not 64 bit capable. Deep fritz 8 will also not be 64 bit capable,
>>>since the engine is already made, there basically marketing it on the Kasparov
>>>match and a few book tweaks along the way. For the top commercial programs: ie
>>>shredder/fritz/junior.... you're looking at about 1 year+ atleast for them to
>>>come around to making 64 bit programs.
>>
>>
>>What is the meaning of 64 bit program?
>>
>>I Know the meaning of Bitboards butI guess that not every program that use
>>them(for example only for pawn structure) is defined to be a 64 bit program.
>>
>>please define what do you mean by 64 bit program and how much speed do you think
>>that programs can get from going to 64 bits.
>>
>>If you need to work a year only to get 10% speed improvement then it is clearly
>>a bad idea to have 64 bit program because you can earn more from other
>>improvements.
>>
>>Uri
>
>If a guru computer chess programmer cannot define "64 bit program,"  what hope
>is there for anybody else to do it????
>
>Bob D.

I am not the best programmer here and there are a lot of programmers that are
better than me.

Uri



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