Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 05:39:24 09/19/03
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On September 19, 2003 at 08:25:00, Steven Edwards wrote: >The leader position changes from time to time. Back in late 1999, the Apple >PowerMac G4 was the only consumer machine to be on the US State Department >export blacklist because the box could do better than 1 GFlop/sec sustained. >Then there were the years where Motorola fell behind by quite a bit. Now it >looks like things are even again, but now with IBM putting its resources into >PPC fab tech, I think that the PPC970 and its relatives will once again assume >the front position. Personally I am not so optimistic. It seems to me that the 970 is rather unimpressive for integer operations, and I'm afraid non-bitboard chess engines (like mine) will perform very badly. I have even seen several test results which indicate that the G5 can even be _slower_ than a G4 in certain cases. In particular, a discussion on the Macintosh Common Lisp mailing list the last few days has made me rather worried. It started with this e-mail: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.mcl.general/1404 I really hope I will be proven wrong, but so far I think the G5 looks very bad. Tord
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