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Subject: Re: Crafty results on a 246x2

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 14:27:48 09/23/03

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On September 23, 2003 at 16:08:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 23, 2003 at 11:50:03, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>Just FYI, with the standard exe off Hyatt's FTP, a dual opteron 246 (K8D Master
>>motherboard, Windows XP Pro, 2GB RAM) gets 2.22M nps on Crafty 19.03.
>>
>>With an optimized exe (Intel compiler) it gets 2.6M nps.
>>
>>
>>Smoking for a 2.0Ghz machine...
>
>
>The main problem with that is that it is still using 32 bit code everywhere,
>eliminating the main advantage of the Opteron.  IE the Intel compiler only
>produces X86 code...

Main advantage, yes.  But that 2x2.0 is still kicking ass.

>real 64 bit results will be very interesting to see.  I hope we have some duals
>reasonably soon.  There is already a 64 bit linux kernel for the opteron, so the
>question will be how does gcc do for 64 bit stuff?  we'll see, hopefully pretty
>soon.

As soon as they have a 64-bit Opteron compiler (publicly available), I'll let
you know.  ;)



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