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Subject: Re: L2-Cache and chess programs

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 15:52:30 01/24/00

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On January 24, 2000 at 18:43:48, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On January 24, 2000 at 10:59:27, David Blackman wrote:
>>Almost twice as fast. 11 clocks vs 20. 11 clocks is fast enough to be useful,
>>but not as fast as i expected when i first heard "full speed L2 cache". Intel
>>has been hinting that Coppermine L2 will be quite a bit faster. We'll see.
>>
>>The L2 cache on the AMD K6-3 was also claimed to be "full speed L2 cache". It's
>>speed was unpredicable but usually slower than Celeron, and occasionally slower
>>than Pentium II.
>
>sorry but i cannot agree here.
>
>depends massively on the program you do test with:
>cstal e.g. on a k6-3/450 is 2x faster than on a k6-2/450.
>and i don't think it runs slower on a k6-2 than on a pentium2/3
>or a celeron.

Read the post again. We're talking about cache speed, not processor speed.

-Tom



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