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Subject: Re: How about open weaponry boxing championship?

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 23:12:58 07/17/04

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On July 17, 2004 at 19:39:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 17, 2004 at 17:15:15, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>On July 17, 2004 at 16:18:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>The correct number is around 45%, gcc 32 bit vs gcc 64 bit, or msvc 32 bit vs
>>>msvc 64 bit.  I believe AMD has already published these numbers in fact...
>>
>>...which is still higher than the 1.4 :)
>>
>>>And Microsoft's compiler is at _least_ 10% faster than GCC.  More can be said by
>>>Eugene if he wants...
>>>
>>>I was simply pointing out that there was absolutely no way a quad is 4x faster
>>>than a 1-cpu box.
>>
>>Actually there is, if you use a quad 2.4 GHz against a single at 2.0 GHz :)
>>
>>-S.
>
>
>Nope.  Again, going over the math.
>
>First, assume that the 2.4ghz machine runs like a 2.2ghz box due to the missing
>NUMA kernel.  My testing shows that the 2.2ghz box searched one position at
>2.07M nodes per second (1 cpu) where the 2.4ghz searched the same position at
>2.1M nodes per second, almost identical.

Missing NUMA kernal and bad compilers, that all software issues.

So according to you...:

"That's not my problem.  IE he ran on a 64 bit processor.  So _hardware_
advantage is easy to compute.  If he didn't compile it correctly, there's little
I can do about that.  But the raw _hardware_ advantage is easy to compute. "

:)

-S.



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