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Subject: Re: Crafty results on a 246x2

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 23:12:27 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...
>
>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.

Yes, not only 64-bit but also eight additional 64-bit gp-registers.
More fastcall passing, even for bitboards. In general less stores and loads for
locals and actual parameters. I guess that will give a boost too.

Gerd



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