Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:27:42 02/05/99
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On February 05, 1999 at 17:53:57, Eugene Nalimov wrote: [snip] >Here I have Dell dual PII/400 and Digital dual Alpha 21164A/500. >Based on my experience, those machines have almost identical >performance - even on Crafty, which does a lot of 64-bit operations, >Alpha is only marginally faster. My feelings are confirmed by >SpecInt95. > >I know that 21164A is slower than 21264, but Pentium/400 is not >the last processor from Intel, too. > >The real Alpha advantage lays in 64-bit pointers - it's ideal for >huge databases. But not for chess, and not with 32-bit NT. What about 6 piece tablebase files and 100 million position opening books? The greatest advances will come from things of that nature, unless some fundamentally new algorithm is invented. So the Alpha should be good for chess, given a 64 bit OS.
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