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

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 11:56:38 05/03/99

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On May 03, 1999 at 14:47:20, James Robertson wrote:

>On May 03, 1999 at 14:40:18, Ian Kennedy wrote:
>
>>On May 03, 1999 at 12:58:39, James Robertson wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>
>>Not quite sure what you're saying here since bsr and bsf have been around since
>>the 386, do you mean they have been improved in some way?
>>
>>Ian Kennedy
>
>I think bsf/bsr are faster on a PII/PPro than on a plain Pentium.
>
>James

bsr/bsf instructions can use up to 70 CPU ticks at the older Pentiums
(bsf r32,r32 - 6-43; bsr r32,r32 - 7-71). With newer Intel processors
you can use them - they converts into 4 ROPs (I don’t know about AMD/
Cyrix/IDT processors).

Eugene



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