Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 05:07:48 07/08/99
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On July 07, 1999 at 01:05:15, Ed Schröder wrote: >The AMD-K6-III is a breakthrough because the second level cache runs >at full processor speed. If you have (say) a 450 Mhz K6-III the >second level cache will run at 450 Mhz too instead of the old 100 Mhz. > >Now to chess programs and its effects, chess programs with small >evaluation functions will hardly profit from this new technique. >Chess programs with a big evaluation function will profit a lot. > >Rebel's speed-up is about 100%. CST speed up is 125% which is >no surprise for me becuase CST has the largest eval of all. > >Ed Schroder exactly. cstal runs better on AMD k6-2 than on any intel pentium1 due to bigger cache. the pentium2 is faster than the same k6-2, but not much faster. and the k6-3 is faster than the pentium2. in the end cstal win95 runs 2.x times faster on a k6-3 than on a k6-2 of the same speed. thats brilliant !!!
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