Author: Manfred Schubert
Date: 23:25:04 11/16/99
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>1) The Mac G3 and G4 are pretty much equivalent for chess programs. > (The advantage of the G4, the "gigaflop" potential, is for floating point > programs compiled to take advantage of the Altivec parallel processing. That's not quite true. The AltiVec unit os not a floating point unit, but a vector unit. Vectors are arrays of data, that the vector unit can handle parallel. I'm not yet shure how to program for Altivec (i don't have a G4), but since chess programs make heavy use of arrays this could be a big advantage for chess applications if compiled for AltiVec. Manfred By the way Richard: Did you get my not about the Vanessa Chess 1.5 beta?
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