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Subject: Re: XBox-360 - Good for Chess??

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 07:11:21 05/14/05

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If the chess engine can use multiple threads (specifically with the Xbox 360
CPU/memory architecture) efficiently, it would be pretty good.  But, I doubt
that any current engine has been even ported to this architecture yet, much less
optimized.  I would think Crafty would be first.  Also, the fast floating point
speed is pretty useless for most chess engines.  Current single-threaded,
integer instruction based program performance will be fair to poor, IMO.
Remember, Bob Hyatt suggested we all get working on "SMP" years ago :)
Next, Quad core will be here before we know it (and likely before Tinker would
know how to use even 2 CPU cores).

Brian



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