Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 19:55:31 02/15/00
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On February 15, 2000 at 20:50:27, stuart taylor wrote: >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? I think L2 cache size makes a big difference for HIARCS. Evidently HIARCS is significantly faster on a G4 than it is on a PC processor. I think the only way to explain this adequately is that the G4 has a 1MB L2 cache, which is at least twice as much as your average PC processor. > And similarly how much difference does interger aspects make to chess programs >and what does it affect? A processor's integer core performance will affect every chess program, but to varying degrees. Example: if you double the speed of the processor's integer core, it will probably run Fritz twice as fast, but HIARCS maybe 1.5 times as fast. > And-would athlon 600 mhz. do everything atleast as good as anything else >at >450 mhz? Probably. Unless you have some weird, extreme situation. -Tom
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