Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:49:21 06/04/04
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On June 04, 2004 at 22:38:59, Joshua Shriver wrote: >As I embark on a new adventure as a chess engine developer I wonder what is the >best architecture to develope for? > >Keeping in mind I'd like to write assembly cores but C overall? >While I've been a long Alpha fan.. right now it seems the best cores are Opteron >and G5's. > >Any comments are appreciated. > >Sincerely, >Joshua Shriver Opterons and alphas are great. Opteron is already significantly faster, however, and the gap will continue to widen as alpha development seems to have slowed way down since the rights were sold by DEC a few years back. Opteron looks like the chip of the future, although Intel has announced an X86-64 processor for their future, scheduled for early next year. How it will perform given the opteron will be 2 years old is a question to be answered once it is actually delivered...
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