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Subject: Re: WCCC: Almost no hardwareadvantage for Crafty

Author: Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz

Date: 08:25:08 06/29/04

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On June 29, 2004 at 08:26:15, Zach Wegner wrote:

>One important point is that crafty uses bitboards, so it will have an additional
>speedup on a 64 bit processor.

I might be wrong, but I think that Fritz also uses bitboards (I don't know about
Shredder).
Anyway, what about the compiler? And what extra efficiency do you expect from a
64-bit processor? Enough to outsearch all other engines running on similar
processors?

Jaime



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