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Subject: Re: Simple quad-opteron test

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 22:40:11 12/03/03

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On December 03, 2003 at 22:51:43, Sune Fischer wrote:

>>Clock for clock, Crafty is about 60% faster on 64-bit hardware. IE a 2GHz
>>Opteron would run Crafty about 60% faster than a 2GHz 32-bit Athlon. Gian Carlo
>>reported that Sjeng ran 70% faster, clock for clock.
>
>The Opteron has lots of improvements other than the 64 bit thing, so it is still
>not exactly known what is contributing where for Crafty.
>
>I suspect Crafty would get a good speedup on a 32-bit Athlon too if it had 1 MB
>cache and more registers, this should somehow be factored out.
>
>Granted that's not easy to do, but if/when we manage to take a handfull of
>bitboard programs and compare their speedup to a handfull of non-bitboard
>programs, then we might get a better impression of how much the 64-bit thing is
>an issue on the overall.
>
>It is also possible that the first generation chess programs and compilers won't
>be optimal. First tests are often 'worst case' senarios.

I didn't say that the speedup was due only to the 64-bit nature of Crafty. I
just said there was a 60% speedup :)



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