Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 02:10:29 02/24/06
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On February 24, 2006 at 00:21:25, enrico carrisco wrote: >Hello Tord. > >It's good to see you will be at the event! Thanks! It will be great fun. I look forward to meeting you, and hope Glaurung will face Hiarcs somewhere along the way. >I take it from the above that Glaurung doesn't take advantage of 64-bit or the >above wouldn't be true. Correct. The only 64-bit integers I use are hash keys and node counters. >Speaking of which -- what's your take on Apple's latest move? G5 is a nice >workhorse and it had even MORE potential that was unused with its 64-bit. Now >that Apple has made a deal with Intel for these Pentium-M dual-cores, where does >that leave any hopes for 64-bit applications? My opinions about this are probably not very interesting, because I am totally ignorant about almost everything concerning CPUs and computer hardware, but since you ask: My previous computer was an iMac G5 1.8 GHz, my current is an iMac Core Duo 2.0 GHz. The new computer is vastly superior in almost every way, and especially for running chess programs. Even when running on a single core, Glaurung is about 50% faster on the Core Duo than on the G5. The G5 never impressed me much. It seemed to be optimized for floating point operations, which I never use, neither for computer chess nor for other programs. There is only one thing I miss on the iMac Core Duo, but this is so painful that I almost regret my purchase: I can no longer use the excellent OpenMCL Common Lisp implementation. I thought I could live for a short while without a Lisp, but it is harder than I thought. Tord
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