Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:46:56 10/15/99
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On October 15, 1999 at 09:36:32, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>On October 15, 1999 at 01:15:17, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>I'm not sure what all the crap about not being creative is. The Deep Thought
>>people said for years that massive extensions were the way to go. That was
>>fairly creative, seeing as almost all of the micro people disagreed vehemently
>>("doesn't work", "it's garbage", "they need it because they have no eval", etc.)
>
>I completely agree.
>
>
>>And today? Micros are fast enough that we realize healthy doses of extensions
>>can improve performance significantly... because the micros of today are,
>>speed-wise, where the DT team was already at roughly 10 years ago, and everyone
>>can see it for themself.
>
>Weren't they already going at a few million NPS back then? I don't think any
>micro is so fast, yet. (Crafty on a multi-CPU Alpha machine would be, though. :)
>
>Jeremiah
yes. At one point deep thought was doing maybe 5M, which is still close to 10X
faster than todays programs, yet this 5M was over 10 years ago. Crafty has hit
7M on a 16 cpu machine already. On a 21264 X 16 it ought to hit 16M or very
close to it.
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