Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 07:02:39 02/28/04
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On February 28, 2004 at 04:35:43, Robert Allgeuer wrote: >I do not understand this result: on my old Athlon TB 1.1GHz I reach 615572 nps, >on a Athlon XP 2400+ 1100335 nps. In comparison the 733042 nps of 32 bit code on >AMD64 look way too slow. Maybe the compiler produces very slow code without any >optimisations at all; anyway, there must be a problem somewhere. > >Your results btw would suggest not to buy an AMD64 for chess at this stage, >because the vast majority of chess programs today is still on 32 bits and would >therefore run even slower than on older hardware. I do not think that this is >indeed the case. > >Robert Definitely not. Just try a 32 bit program such as Fritz 8 on an AMD64 and you'll see how fast it is: faster than any other current single CPU running Fritz 8. The AMD64 is a great chess processor and will be even better very soon with new 64 bit chess apps. Djordje
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