Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 15:27:28 09/02/99
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Hi On September 02, 1999 at 18:13:23, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >Depending on what sort of chess program you have and how much assembly you want >to put into the project, the vector stuff could make a chess program much >faster. However, most of the programs I'm familiar with use algorithms that >wouldn't benefit very much. I agree with you on this but this turns into the "chicken and egg" problem. Most programs don't use evals of the kind I mentioned *because* it's not very efficient on current CPUs. But didn't Cray Blitz use this vector thingy alot? (Not sure on this one..) Of course CrayBlitz didn't run on home computers... cu, -sargon PS. Can we at least agree on the cool design of the machine? :)
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