Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:50:22 01/03/00
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On January 03, 2000 at 14:34:47, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >I can assure you that for at least one part of chess program - TBs - 32 bits is >too small; for 6 man TBs we need at least 33 bits... And while it is doable at >32-bit machines (or at 16-bit, or even at 8-bit), 64 bits will help a lot. > >Eugene Yes, but have you written another program like that in the last twenty years? That is an exceptional case, a program that requires what amounts to an array of more than 2^32 elements, and a file that can be greater than 2^32 bytes in size. Once the tables are built, it is convenient to use 64-bit values to access the data, but a 64-bit processor is no great win there. bruce
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