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Subject: Re: OT -> if you had the choice...

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 15:06:31 11/05/03

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On November 05, 2003 at 14:02:55, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>On November 05, 2003 at 12:47:28, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>On November 05, 2003 at 09:54:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On November 05, 2003 at 05:22:16, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>
>>>>If you the choice between:
>>>>
>>>>1) AMD Opteron 244, 1.8 Ghz, S-940 Box
>>>>
>>>>and:
>>>>
>>>>2) AMD MP 2600+, 266Mhz
>>>>
>>>>then what would be the best choice regarding speed.
>>>>
>>>>I wonder...
>>>>
>>>>Ed
>>
>>>for me, I'd take the opteron.
>>>
>>>Crafty gets about 2M nps on a 1.8ghz opteron...  single processor.
>>
>>
>>I think I will follow your advice, then wait for the first compiler that is
>>going to support the chip. I suppose there is none yet.
>>
>>My best,
>>
>>Ed
>
>
>
>Hi Ed,


Hi Gerd,

>take that opteron beast. Look at the amount of registers in 64-bit mode.

I have seen it, a programmers heaven :)


>I guess ms-betas are already available, assembler, C++-compiler, linker,
>debugger, the os itself.
>
>You may have a closer look at ms and sandpile sites, e.g.:
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/ddk/debugging/default64bit.mspx
>http://www.sandpile.org/aa64/index.htm
>ftp://ftp.sandpile.org/

Thanks for links, maybe I must switch compilers again, mine (DigitalMars) is
good but developed by one person, thus slow in such a major update.

My best,

Ed




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