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Subject: Re: WCCC: Almost no hardwareadvantage for Crafty

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 09:28:03 06/29/04

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On June 29, 2004 at 11:56:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 29, 2004 at 11:25:08, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz wrote:
>
>>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
>
>
>AMD has tested Crafty to answer this question.  They compiled it for 32 bits,
>and for 64 bits.  The 64 bit version runs 47% faster than the 32 bit version,
>everything else remaining constant.

Going from 32 to 64 bits also the number of registers moves up from 8 to 16
which is a big speedup also for Crafty and is inside that 47%.

>Fritz does not use bitboards by the way...



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