Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 19:48:06 02/15/00
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On February 15, 2000 at 22:09:48, Howard Exner wrote: >One of the biggest features of the Willamette is its ability to run the Integer >ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) at twice the clock speed of the CPU. This means >that on a 1.5GHz Willamette, the Integer ALU is actually running at 3.0GHz. For >games this won’t increase performance by a large amount due to their largely >floating point oriented performance dependency however in business applications >and other applications that are primarily integer performance dependent the >Willamette will truly excel. > >The above paragraph is from Anandtech. Are chess programs dependent on >integer rather than floating point ? If so does this mean a genuine 3 GHz >speed for chess applications? Sounds too good to be true. Interesting question. If a chess program can keep all its data in registers, then the speed will approach "3GHz". Programs like Fritz probably fit this description pretty well. -Tom
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