Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 11:43:55 10/20/03
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On October 20, 2003 at 14:36:49, stuart taylor wrote: >On October 20, 2003 at 10:00:09, Earl Fuller wrote: > >>Well in case some of you have not heard, AMD has released their new Athlon 64 >>and the Athlon 64 FX. This is a 64-bit CPU. Yes, it will run 32 bit programs! >>and faster ! Whats the big deal ? Well, from what i've read, the fastest 32-bit >>desktop CPU's "Athlon XP and the Pentium 4" can only address 4 GB of ram. But, >>the new 64-bit can address 256 terabytes of ram. > >What does this all mean when it comes to chess playing, or potential for chess >playing (when hardware and software are well utilized, under this 64bit system)? Some issues: Dumping x86 register starved architecture (speed up some stuff). Process 64 bits at a whack instead of 32 bits (more speed ups, especially for bit-board progs). I don't know, maybe better (more efficient) memory architecture, better cache. Just better stuff all round, I think. MH >S.Taylor
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