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Subject: Re: R. Hyatt, Crafty style move generation

Author: Larry Griffiths

Date: 05:57:23 01/24/01

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On January 24, 2001 at 05:32:09, Dan Andersson wrote:

>I assume it depends on the program. When trying MMX I got a significant
>slowdown, over 50% slower in fact.
>
>Regards Dan Andersson

I got bad performance hits with MMX until I discovered that the data has to be
aligned on quadword boundrys.  I would change code and get different run times.
I found that inserting code was shifting my data across qword boundrys and this
could make it take 4 times longer to execute.

Larry.



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