Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:02:22 09/14/99
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On September 14, 1999 at 16:09:44, Michel van der List wrote: >On September 14, 1999 at 07:53:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 13, 1999 at 22:28:24, Martin Grabriel wrote: >> >>>with all its tablebases play better than Cray in the 1980s? >> >> >>No. Unless you mean using 1980's hardware. Cray Blitz, on current Cray >>hardware, is pretty formidable... it can hit almost 10M nodes per second... >>uses singular extensions, etc. If you mean 1980's era Cray Blitz on modern >>hardware, that is still very strong. If you mean 1980's era CB software on >>1980's era hardware, it is still at _least_ as fast as the very fastest >>programs of today, but such games would indeed be 'interesting'... > >Yeah, but how about crafty on that same current cray? Would it be better then >Cray Blitz on the current hardware? Not even close. CB had 20K lines of hand-tuned vectorized assembly code to get the speed we hit. Crafty would take a major rewrite to use the vector hardware, although the 64 bit stuff would obviously fit perfectly...
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