16 Apr
2008
16 Apr
'08
1:42 p.m.
I know it's like comparing apples and oranges, but
Deep Blue sans
specialist chess hardware was rated at 11.38 Gigaflops
...which is pretty meaningless, since (a) much of the speed came from
the custom silicon (it's a bit like saying "without the fancy graphics
hardware my gaming system cranks 15 fps") and (b) chess code normally
doesn't use all that much floating point anyway.
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