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Subject: Re: crafty at Athlon64

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:57:16 02/13/04

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On February 13, 2004 at 17:42:19, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:

>On February 12, 2004 at 13:24:35, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>On February 12, 2004 at 12:35:03, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>>
>>>A fellow student of me got an Athlon64 3200 for his phD work at university and
>>>installed the x86-64 version of Suse9. I could not resist to quickly compile
>>>crafty to test the speed. :)
>>>
>>>unable to open book file [./book.bin].
>>>book is disabled
>>>unable to open book file [./books.bin].
>>>EGTB access enabled
>>>using tbpath=./TB
>>>0 piece tablebase files found
>>>
>>>Crafty v19.10
>>>
>>>White(1): bench
>>>Running benchmark. . .
>>>......
>>>Total nodes: 89942714
>>>Raw nodes per second: 1835565
>>>Total elapsed time: 49
>>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 13.061224
>>>White(1):
>>>
>>>
>>>regards
>>>Andy
>>
>>With a good Windows binary running 64bit stuff you can probably figure you will
>>be able to get a 40% increase over GCC. This is what I got going from GCC to one
>>of my Intel C 5.0.1 binaries. This should put you up around 2.5 million
>>nodes/sec @ 2GHz. :)
>
>I wish. I just managed to compile a 64 bit version of crafty on WinXP64 on my
>Athlon64 3000 using the DDK compiler, and got
>Raw nodes per second: 1578860.
>for comparison, the 32 bit version I compiled got
>Raw nodes per second: 1332804
>
>I haven't made any special effort to optimize it, and my A64 3000 runs at the
>same clock speed as the 3200 with half the L2 cache. When I get Linux running,
>I'll compile that and compare.

Note that for linux, I have a linux-amd option in the Makefile.  And that there
is an inlineamd.h that will add a couple of percent although the linux-amd
makefile already takes advantage of that...



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