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Subject: Re: WCCC: Almost no hardwareadvantage for Crafty

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:49:51 06/29/04

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On June 29, 2004 at 12:11:57, Uri Blass wrote:

>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.
>>
>>Fritz does not use bitboards by the way...
>
>You may be right but how do you know that the version that is going to play in
>WCCC does not use bitboard?
>
>Uri


I only pay attention to what the actual authors say.  Frans has said he does not
use bitboards.  I doubt that has changed recently.  It takes time.



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