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Subject: Re: PowerMac G5

Author: Jay Scott

Date: 13:38:08 04/28/05

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On April 27, 2005 at 12:11:33, Matthew Hull wrote:

>Unless someone could figure out how to use the vector processor for chess
>knowledge.  Bob did that on Cray machines, but the "altivec" type processor is
>probably much more primitive and less flixible than the Cray.

AltiVec is a short-vector processor, which on the face of it ought to be more
suitable for chess than a Cray pipeline-vector processor. In either case, to get
big wins you have to code for it from the ground up--that's the holdup.

  Jay



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