Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 19:42:55 06/27/00
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Use Itanium machine. There are 127 64-bit integer registers, plus 126 FP registers that also can be used for some integer operations :-) Eugene On June 27, 2000 at 22:31:35, Larry Griffiths wrote: >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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