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Re:Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Ka... by actionfromafar on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:27AM (#50351717)
Just one caveat: the Pro overlapped in time with people running a lot of 16-bit code, and I think the Pentium MMX was faster for that, or at least that the Pro didn't offer much edge.
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Re:Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Ka... by whaleofatw2022 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:33AM (#50351795)
The pro did register renaming. But the way it worked, if you wrote to AX (16 bit write) and then read from EAX (32 bit read) it caused a pipeline stall from resyncing the registers.
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Re:Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Ka... by Sharlin on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:42AM (#50352601)
Yeah, thanks both for elaborating!
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