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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