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Subject: Re: mac chess getting better

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 22:38:37 12/13/99

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This confirms my hypothesis that HIARCS uses a lot of memory. I bet money that
the K6 does not run HIARCS very well because the L2 cache runs at 100MHz (and
not half the frequency of the processor).

-Tom

On December 14, 1999 at 01:17:23, Manuel Leone wrote:

>I have read the HIARCS and TSCP benchmarks with interest. Thanks
>to both gentlemen. It seems that HIARCS is the only program that
>doesn't seem to benefit from the use of a K6 processor instead of
>a Pentium. In fact, its performance (per MHz) has deteriorated on
>the K6, as the latest SSDF list shows. I haven't yet figured out why.



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