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Subject: Re: Shreddermark linearity

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:31:54 02/11/04

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On February 11, 2004 at 16:34:05, Roy Eassa wrote:

>My PC is a 1.2 GHz Athlon.  I get a ShredderMark of 556 / 128k nps when Shredder
>8 is set to 190k hash.
>
>I just bought a cheap very Dell system that usess a 2.8 GHz Pentium IV.  I
>figured it would be less than twice as fast.  Instead, I get a ShredderMark of
>2227 / 297k nps (also using 190k hash)!
>
>First, why is the ShredderMark 4x as high when the integer performance of the
>CPU should be less than 2x as high?

Because the sequence of instructions for Shredder mark performs for times faster
on that chip.  Maybe it all fits in the cache.

>Second, why isn't the ShredderMark's improvement proportional to that of the
>nps?

Because different instructions are used to play chess than to perform a
shreddermark test.



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