Author: stuart taylor
Date: 17:50:27 02/15/00
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On February 14, 2000 at 22:04:50, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>On February 14, 2000 at 20:27:32, Frank Koenig wrote:
>
>>Along these same lines, with all of the debate that I've read elsewhere about
>>the benefits of having a full speed L2 cache (in the case of the latest Intel
>>processors) vs. a cache running with a 2/5ths divider (in the case of the latest
>>Athlon CPUs), I'd like to know if this applies to Chess software. Does the
>>addition of faster L2 cache make a substantial difference?
>
>It depends on the program.
>
>Small programs like Fritz and Nimzo will not be affected by L2 cache.
>
>Large programs like HIARCS will be greatly affected by the amount and speed of
>L2 cache.
>
>-Tom
I'm still I'm afraid very ignorant in these matters. So I'm asking simply-or
maybe not so simply-How much difference can L2 cache make to hiarcs, and what
does it affect therein?
And similarly how much difference does interger aspects make to chess programs
and what does it affect?
And-would athlon 600 mhz. do everything atleast as good as anything else
at
450 mhz?
S.Taylor
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