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Subject: Re: Crafty likes Celeron 300, but Fritz less

Author: James Robertson

Date: 09:58:39 05/03/99

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On May 03, 1999 at 03:09:32, Jouni Uski wrote:

>I have compared Crafty 16.6 and Fritz5.32 in P90 and Celeron 300 PCs. Here is
>average NPS:
>
>                    P90        Cel 300       speed-up
>    Fritz 5.32      88 kn/s    288 kn/s      3.3 x
>    Crafty 16.6     20 kn/s    175 kn/s      8.8 x !!

I think it is due to the bitboards. The newer chips have much better machine
operations (bsf, bsr) to do 64-bit math, so Crafty will have a much better time
on the newer machine.

James



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