Author: Bango
Date: 10:03:46 01/03/00
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On January 03, 2000 at 12:35:28, Bruce Moreland wrote: >My guess is that most programs are designed to run fine in the 32-bit world, or >even the 16-bit world. These will not benefit much from 64-bit processors. >You >can write a perfectly fine chess program without having to take heavy advantage >of 64-bit quantities. If you are starting from scratch perhaps you would make >more use of these, but if you don't have them you can live without them and >suffer very little if at all. Thank you for the lengthy response. However; to us technophobes, it seems reasonable that a 64 bit bus can send double the information as well a 64 bit CPU can calculate twice as fast. For example look at the SEGA games which run on 64 bit systems, the graphics are amazing, much nicer than a home computer. IMHO if a computer software program runs better on 32 bits than 16 bits it seems reasonable that 64 bits will increase speed and quality even more. I think that Chessbase will hop on the bandwagon first as usual and make engines such as Fritz, Nimzo, Junior, Hiarcs, Crafty etc... change to 64 bits so they can play in the Chessbase GUI. BTW any word on when Ferret will be released or how it will be released ?? Example: Engine for Chessbase Thanks, Bango
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