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Subject: Re: What are the chances of getting a new 64bit instruction for chess :)

Author: Larry Griffiths

Date: 19:31:35 06/27/00

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On June 26, 2000 at 23:51:03, leonid wrote:

>The best for me is the general registers 64 bits wide. And some 128, like it was
>for a very long time promised with the new 64 bits CPU. All MMX instructions I
>see as very little for really good advance in chess programming.
>
>Leonid.

I agree that the instructions are lacking, but they are 64-bits.  Bummer that
there are only 8 of them and that they interfere with floating point.  I
estimate that the EMMS instruction takes 10 clock cylcles on my machine.

Larry



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