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Subject: Re: What is the speed difference that programs earn from 64 bit systems

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:33:43 04/29/05

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On April 29, 2005 at 16:26:28, Uri Blass wrote:

>I read that Shredder9 for 64 bit is released and my question is what is the
>speed difference that program earn from compiling for 64 bits when you need also
>64 bit window to run it.
>
>Can somebody tell me about the speed gain in nodes per second of all the free
>source code programs including programs that do not use bitboard like tscp or
>fruit and bitboard programs like Crafty.
>
>Uri

In general, I have heard that, if all you do is recompile your program with a
64-bit compiler, you should expect 5-15% speed improvement.

I have no idea about improvements that have been gained by fully optimizing the
code after that first compile.

jm



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