Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 20:06:23 06/06/04
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On June 04, 2004 at 22:49:21, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Alpha was officially end-of-lined. There will be no new Alpha CPUs after current ones. Thanks, Eugene >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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