Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 11:28:28 08/17/00
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See "Itanium Processor Microarchitecture Reference", Order number 245473-001.
Also available from Intel's web site for free.
Main problem with your solution is intermix of integer (mov, and, shift by
constant) and MMX (parallel add, shift by variable amount) operations.
Int-to-MMX latency is 3 clock cycles. MMX-to-int latency is 4 clock cycles.
Eugene
On August 17, 2000 at 14:12:25, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:
>On August 16, 2000 at 13:11:04, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>On August 15, 2000 at 23:27:46, Larry Griffiths wrote:
>>
>>>I looked through some literature for the Intel Itanium processor and did not see
>>>any Bit Scan Forward or Bit Scan reverse instructions. Does anyone know for
>>>sure if the Itanium has these instructions or something like them.
>>>My bitboard move generation would really suck without BSF or BSR.
>>>
>>>Larry.
>>
>>No. There are no such instructions. You have to use ifs, shifts, and lookup
>>table. Here is the example -- FirstOne()/LastOne() that I wrote for IA-64
>>version of Crafty (it is not in the official build yet):
>>
>I think you can do a lot better using the multimedia instructions (this is just
>from reading the docs).
>
>int FirstOne(BITBOARD arg1) {
> __asm {
> ld r1, arg1
> ld r2, 0fefefefefefefefeh ; probably is address of constant
> ld r3, 0101010101010101h
> padd1.uuu r4=r1,r2 ; each byte in r4 has fe if byte in arg1 was 0, else ff
> padd r4=r4,r3 ; now each non-zero byte in arg1 is zero
> czx1.l r2=r4 ; r2 has byte with first bit set or 8 if all 0
> shl r2=r2,3
> shr.u r1=r1,r2 ;first bit is now in low byte (or 0 if none set)
> and r1, 0ffh
> ld r0, btab[r1] ;not sure how to do this
> add r0=r0,r2
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