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Subject: Re: Coppermine results

Author: Eelco de Groot

Date: 02:50:33 12/13/99

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On December 13, 1999 at 04:36:26, Gunnar Andersson wrote:

>I'm the creator of the engine in the Othello program WZebra and I'm curious
>about how you obtained the figure 35%. Did you actually test it on a Coppermine
>processor?
>
>I did some back-of the envelope estimates recently and came up with 0% in the
>midgame and 5% in the endgame without any changes to the code, probably up to
>10%, at least in the midgame, if the Coppermine provides lots of registers (> 32
>would be nice). (I'm a bit confused here, is the Coppermine the same thing as
>the Merced/Itanium?)
>
>/ Gunnar

Gunnar, the Coppermine is not the same as the Merced. It is an improved P III,
with L2 cache on chip.

See also:

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-851003.html

Other people could give more information I think.

  Eelco



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